Discretion Quotes
Quotes tagged as "discretion"
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![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
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![David Sedaris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1656395801i/2849._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
― Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
― Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
![Michael Bassey Johnson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614091882i/7189272._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”
― The Infinity Sign
― The Infinity Sign
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)”
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![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
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![Israelmore Ayivor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497748668i/7023141._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!”
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![Tom Robbins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430660478i/197._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
![Ron Chernow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217517809i/9950._UX200_CR0,66,200,200_.jpg)
“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
![Benjamin Franklin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215314094i/289513._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it”
― The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
― The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
![Julian Fellowes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255634426i/8759._UY200_CR31,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”
― Gosford Park: The Shooting Script
― Gosford Park: The Shooting Script
![Craig D. Lounsbrough](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1698597499i/4172966._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The greatest riches in life are not obtained by what we chase but by what we choose not to chase, for it is the exercise of wisdom that makes one truly rich.”
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![Craig D. Lounsbrough](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1698597499i/4172966._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The world would be a better place if the person who’s incessantly talking started learning how to say more using less oxygen.”
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![Geoffrey Chaucer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1202588994i/1838._CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“My sone, God, of his endelees goodnesse,
Walled a tonge with teeth and lippes eke,
For man sholde him avise what he speeke.”
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Walled a tonge with teeth and lippes eke,
For man sholde him avise what he speeke.”
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![Nancy Rubin Stuart](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1599850503i/53629._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Discretion was bred into the Shippens' bones Whatever arguments, embarrassments , or regrets the family expressed were hidden behind their handsomely polished front doors.”
― Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
― Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
![Hanna Abi Akl](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1659543493i/15221258._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“time,
often the unpredictable
wizard that rolls the
dice for us
and death, there,
like a
panther in the shadows,
discrete yet alert”
― Memory
often the unpredictable
wizard that rolls the
dice for us
and death, there,
like a
panther in the shadows,
discrete yet alert”
― Memory
![Sarah J. Maas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1582137198i/3433047._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Is it true that you left Tamlin because he locked you up in his house?'
I tried to block out the memory, the terror and agony of my heart breaking apart. But I nodded.
'And is it true that you were saved from confinement by the Night Court?'
I nodded again.
Tarquin said, 'The Spring Court is my southern neighbour. I have tenuous ties with them. But unless asked, I will not mention that you were here.'
Thief, liar, manipulator. I didn't deserve his alliance.
But I bowed my head in thanks.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
I tried to block out the memory, the terror and agony of my heart breaking apart. But I nodded.
'And is it true that you were saved from confinement by the Night Court?'
I nodded again.
Tarquin said, 'The Spring Court is my southern neighbour. I have tenuous ties with them. But unless asked, I will not mention that you were here.'
Thief, liar, manipulator. I didn't deserve his alliance.
But I bowed my head in thanks.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
![Mehmet Murat ildan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1371463140i/3164882._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't you have an audience? Are you upset? Stop nonsense like emotional collapse, be your own audience! Do not leave your progress in your life to the discretion and help of others, move forward in any situation!”
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“Do not pre-announce your dreams and visions in public; your future infants will be born prematurely.”
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