Quotes About Discretion

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

To give requires good sense.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'

My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

Despite the worldwide opinion that women are loquacious and indiscreet, my own experience has led me to believe that women on the whole make better conspiratorial workers than men…. They are quicker to perceive danger … superior at being inconspicuous and generally display much caution, discretion and common sense…. Men are often prone to exaggeration and bluff and … subconsciously inclined to surround themselves with an air of mystery that sooner or later proves fatal.

There's an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don't air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and dark funks really took place on the expedition, they're nobody else's business.

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name." "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

The only way to keep a secret is not to repeat it

Waiters and escorts both know that indiscretion is a career-ending move. You reveal a secret only if you are never going back again.

There will be no jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law, and the party who is to receive or suffer it. The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreetTo run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.