Quotes About Discretion

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

I honour your circumspection

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

Ésta es la razón por la que yo uso los servicios de Uber o un pseudónimo siempre que utilizo un vehículo con conductor en cualquier parte del mundo.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

What is offensive is different for everyone.

One thing I love is that I don't have a lot of people running around Hollywood saying 'I've had her,' because guys love to talk, especially about celebrities.

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.

But love, resistless love, my soul invades, discretion this, affection that perswades. I see the right and I approve it too, condemn the wrong and yet the wrong pursue.

Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe ignored the eyebrows. ... Mr Beach's eyebrows were still mutely urging him to reveal all, but Ashe directed his gaze at that portion of the room which Mr Beach did not fill. He was hanged if he was going to let himself be hypnotized by a pair of eyebrows into incriminating himself.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

He asked that the picture not be published simply because his mother did not like it.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

secrets should never be opened without evident utility. It could be of no manner of use to me or her to communicate

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.