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Quotes About Discretion

I am not in the mood to have my underwear examined.
~ M.C. Beaton
Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice.
~ John D. MacDonald
When possible, never let the enemy know what you know.
~ John Grisham
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
~ Unknown
All problems don't need to be solved. They can be ignored too.
~ Unknown
If your playing me keep it on the low, cause my heart cant take it anymore...
~ Unknown
Listen, little girl," said Duke. "If there is one thing you don't do, it's try to break up a cat fight.
~ Mandy M. Roth
As in if-the-van-is-a-rockin'-don't-come-a-knockin'?" asked Austin.
~ Mandy M. Roth
Take what you will from that story, but remember the bottom line: if people don't want to know about something, don't tell them about it.
~ Marc MacYoung
We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.
~ Marc Maron
Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
~ John Steinbeck
You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
~ Johnny Depp
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
~ Herman Melville
To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.
~ Roger Bannister
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
~ Unknown
Learn to keep your private life private, or they will make your life their entertainment.
~ Unknown
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One thing I learned in life, is u keep people's secrets with you not spread them around like the mother fu..ing plague...
~ Kevin McCarty
In addition, the Supreme Court has explained that children have rights independent of their parents: Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.111
~ Unknown
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
~ Margaret Sanger
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
~ Marie de France
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.
~ Marilyn Johnson
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon