Quotes About Discretion

What I do in my own time, is my business.

See, squire," he said to the wide-eyed hotel manager, "our boss tells us we don't want a lot of fuss about this. None of this evacuating the area bollocks you see on telly. We go in, we disarm him nice and quiet, then bob's your uncle, we're out of your hair for good. Okay? No problems for us and no bad publicity for the hotel.

Debo ser discreto, no imponerle a la historia ni mi persona ni mis opiniones. Debo mantenerme sobrio durante las horas de trabajo; debo conservar la salud. No debo aceptar demasiados compromisos de otra índole: no se puede servir a dos señores. Debo seguir el consejo de la historia: hay secretos entre nosotros, y revelarlos sería incurrir en la más grosera de las deslealtades. Y debo estar dispuesto a aceptar determinadas obcecaciones y excentricidades de mi jefa.

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn't the kind of girl you'd ask again: she'd ended up showing off everything she'd got, and she'd puked all down one of the muslin curtains and completely ruined it. At least the men did go into the street to do it; Lorilleux and Poisson, when they felt queer, managed to dash as far as the pork-butcher's shop. Breeding always tells.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

I need not warn you to be discreet; that is the first virtue of any man who hopes to hold public appointments.

Hablaron de cosas muy triviales, con perfecta discreción de personas maduras.

Don't tell everyone everything. Sometimes it's better to simply keep your mouth shut.

Be careful what you say and who you say it in front of in this place, every ear is guaranteed to have a running mouth.

If you want to get away with something, don't announce it first.

It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.

One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.

Sara grinned at that. "A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. — [Sara]

Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful." "I'm always careful." Garadin gave me the look. You know the one. "Whenever I can," I added.

Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.

Es cualquier libro discreto (que si cansa, de hablar deja) un amigo que aconseja y que reprende en secreto.

Oh, good," he muttered. "We're going to discuss it now." "No discussion," she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. "It's perfectly simple. No One Must Ever Know." He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. "Do you know," he said, "I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized.

Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

and scanned the darkness, but saw nothing. "Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated," I said.

The intelligent woman adapts herself to fashion, but never to fad. She knows what is best for her, and her way of life, and sticks to it. She raises and lowers her hemline — with discretion — but she goes on with her timeless dresses made with the basic lines and fabrics that flatter HER, define HER life style. She's secure, and so she can be an elegant individual.

I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.