If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind,… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
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… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Oversharing Why do some people feel the need to share their deepest, darkest secrets with complete strangers or on social media? How… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
