Quotes About Discretion

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

Even though we are reality stars, I feel it is important to keep certain things to ourselves.

I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.

As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?