Quotes About Discretion

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, everyone else will know.

But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone.

month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

Tedaldo adunque, tornato ricchissimo, perseverò nel suo amare, e, senza piú turbarsi la donna, discretamente operando, lungamente goderon del loro amore. Dio faccia noigoder del nostro.

This is the map we wish to construct in our heads: a reliable guide that allows us to avoid those who are not worthy of our time and trust and to embrace those who are. The best indications that our always-tentative maps are faulty include feelings of sadness, anger, betrayal, surprise, and disorientation.

Language being the break with madness, it adheres more thoroughly to its essence and vocation, makes a cleaner break with madness, if it pits itself against madness more freely and gets closer and closer to it: to the point of being separated from it only by the "transparent sheet" of which Joyce speaks, that is, by itself—for this diaphaneity is nothing other than the language, meaning, possibility, and elementary discretion of a nothing that neutralizes everything.

I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other people that they would be uncomfortable with. I didn't want to make people angry - that's a real risk.

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

I simply avoid at all cost people I think are not good for me. So it's disgusting when uncouth, uneducated, dirty, downmarket, classless, characterless, perverted, degraded abominations like Rakhi Sawant claim to ever be friends with me.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust.

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.

I personally couldn't care less who's in the stall next to me as long as I don't have to see what you're doing in there.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.