Quotes About Discretion

There are certain things I do not talk about.

Some things I refuse to talk about on social networking sites. Some things are off limits, like issues with family.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

Relationships last longer when everybody doesn't know your business.

Relationships last longer when facebook doesn't know about them.

He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where

Don't let anyone know about your secret money.

During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.

election is "arbitrary," since God indeed rules "by absolute authority," and election is indeed based on his "individual discretion.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.

It is well for one to know more than he says

Everything they did was a secret, especially from each other.

Sometimes it would be months—even a year or more—between episodes, and we would live in peace together. But then it would happen again; the silent phone calls, the too-excused absences, the late nights. Never anything so overt as another woman's perfume, or lipstick on his collar—he had discretion. But I always felt the ghost of the other woman, whoever she was; some faceless, indistinguishable She. I

He had a dim memory of his father telling him that a secret remained a secret only so long as just one person knew it.

do feel free to call upon me. My discretion may be relied upon, I do assure you." He bowed quaintly from his saddle. "To the same extent as your loyalty to Colum MacKenzie?" I said, arching my brows. The small brown eyes met mine full on, and I saw both the cleverness and the humor that lurked in their faded depths. "Ah, weel," he said, without apology. "Worth a try.

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.

Never argue with a gun-cutter, [...]

let his wife see the White House servants. It's true. Whenever she walked into a room, they had to go hide in a closet.