Quotes About Discretion

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll be glad to make an exception.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

It's one of his rules, his super-secret-spy mind-set. No discussing business in front of strangers.

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

I have no particular formula for staying private.

Stepping out of the spotlight when it's prudent to do so is a good thing.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

The only greater evil than separation... is living under a government of discretion

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of the person whom we ask it: who would expect discretion from a fool, candor from a tyrant, or justice from a villain?

The one person who must never know about this … is my wife.

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.