All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take…

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

— Duke of Wellington

All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that?…

— Elizabeth Warren

“The truth may be true, but a discreet person understands that speaking the truth isn’t always helpful. It can also be hurtful and harmful.”

— Susan C. Young

“A discreet person . . . • is strong, yet humble; • expresses genuine concern and interest; • exercises caution to avoid unnecessary risks;…

— Susan C. Young

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

— Aeschylus

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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