Quotes About Discreet

He had been sent to nanny me and breathe down my neck. He had been discreet-he had not gotten in my way; but who had asked him to come? Not me.

What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Rita Moleskin—what are you doing here?" I said, discreetly pocketing the melting remains of my Snickers in a move Cardini would have envied.

To believe that any intellectual position is worth dying or killing for is a leap no English academic could make. It is a cliché that there are no intellectuals in England. It is also untrue. But if you are going to be an intellectual in England, you had better do it discreetly, and certainly not call yourself an intellectual. It does not do to grow passionate about your beliefs or to believe that every problem has a solution.

Boeken zijn de beste middelen - privé, discreet, betrouwbaar - om over de werkelijkheid heen te stappen.

I libri sono i mezzi migliori - privati, discreti, affidabili - per scavalcare la realtà.

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men.

It was a bright red TVR Griffith, with a five litre V8 engine, and an exhaust note that could have been heard in Peking. It fell some way short of being the ideal car for a discreet surveillance operation

I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

Wentworth, get your boys to round up everyone under suspicion. Discreetly, though. We don't want questions asked by those old women at Westminster until we have a few answers to throw back at them.

I didn't think The Book of Occasional Services included anything like a Ceremony of Discreet Gloating

Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...

What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.

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Was she asleep? He groped beside the bed, among his underclothes, for his wristwatch. He would soon learn, in undressing, to leave it lying discreetly visible. Its silent gold-rimmed face, a tiny banker's face, stated that he had already been out to lunch an hour and forty minutes. A sour burning began to revolve in his stomach.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Except where the very smallest children are concerned, training at home almost entirely eliminates the need for public discipline. Yet, should the need arise in public, be discreet with your discipline, and then go home and re-train in that area of behavior so that you and the child will not be placed in that difficult situation again.

We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.