Quotes About Discretion

There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.

Attacking Jews was of far greater importance to the Nazis than defending them was to other Germans, so most such people decided that discretion was the better part of valor and said nothing.

Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”

I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

Like a gold ring in a pigís snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself, but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.

He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying anotherís confidence,

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.

The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.