Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and…

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

— Alexander Pope

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

— Molly Ivins

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.

— Maajid Nawaz

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

— Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

— Alexander Pope

“Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?…

— Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

— Alexander Pope

I have always been discreet in my life.

— N'Golo Kante

You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as…

— Michel Gondry

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which…

— Jules Renard

I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT…

— Janet Evanovich

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

— Judith Martin

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna…

— Maurice Sendak