Quotes About Discretion

I don't usually prefer over-the-top action.

Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know.

Better not ask people about everything. They might like to keep their secrets to themselves.

You also should avoid talking to your targets, in case you find out that they're beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. For instance.

Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy has never failed the English middle class in any latitude, and they flung them in plenty with delighted, shocked abandon – rocks, boulders, limited in size only by fear for their husband's advancement. Conciliating discretion had never been among Mrs Villiers's qualities, and if subjects for malignant gossip had been wanting she would have provided them by the elephant-load.

Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.

By calling something a secret, we state our right not to reveal, to maintain privacy.

But really it's condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they're old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people don't want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Okay. But don't talk to anyone. No writing. No pictures. These people don't want their faces shown.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

I think you probably know what you're doing and whatever you do is your own business.

The traditional approaches to time management and personal organization were useful in their time. They provided helpful reference points for a workforce that was just emerging from an industrial assembly-line modality into a new kind of work that included choices about what to do and discretion about when to do it.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no." "Why?" Beldin asked bluntly. "We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?

just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

The moral system of a college fraternity turns out to be classically tribal, i.e., characterized by a deeply felt sense of honor, discretion, and loyalty to one's so-called 'brothers,' coupled with a complete, sociopathic lack of regard for the interests or even humanity of anyone outside that fraternal set.

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.

Sir, if you are otherwise discreet, you will consider that you have gone far enough. At my brother's request I am treating you no less kindly than Ampflise treated my uncle Gahmuret, without going to bed together. My kindness would in the long run outweigh hers, if anyone were to weigh us properly. And besides, Sir, I don't know who you are, and yet in such a short space of time you want to have my love.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business