Quotes About Discretion

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Ben has been a discreet and true friend, given he was an usher at my wedding. I tried to explain the situation vis-à-vis Lottie but he didn't want to hear. 'I don't care, Logan. You live your life and I'll live mine. I won't judge you? just as long as you're happy. I'd hope you'd do the same for me.' I assured him I would.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

We need expert help and Mr Worcester is the soul of discretion." "It's a consulting detective's middle name," I said. "Sometimes I don't even know what I'm investigating.

It's really none of your business...

This is our privy. Don't ever let Mrs. Byrne catch you using the one in the house." She pronounces catch "kitch.

Nëse unë do të dëshiroja një mashkull, atëherë ai duhej të ishte i bukur si Antonio, i mencur si Brehti dhe erotik si Koheni. Besnik si një qen dhe diskret si një mace. I pasur si Hermani. Kjo ishte e pamundur dhe unë isha e pashpresë.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny.

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny. And

By the standards of magical society they'd fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn't had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

Lucy frowned. "What's the Three-S rule?" "Shoot, shovel and shut up.

My passions are extremely violent; while under their influence, nothing can equal my impetuosity; I am an absolute stranger to discretion, respect, fear, or decorum; rude, saucy, violent, and intrepid: no shame can stop, no danger intimidate me. My mind is frequently so engrossed by a single object, that beyond it the whole world is not worth a thought; this is the enthusiasm of a moment, the next, perhaps, I am plunged in a state of annihilation. Take me in my moments of tranquility

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.