Indiscreet Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is…
— Grace Kelly
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou…
— Walter Raleigh
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
— John Donne
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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…
— Ron Chernow
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent…
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than…
— Margaret Cavendish
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The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
— Tacitus
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
— Oscar Wilde
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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
— Mark Twain
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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The…
— Victor Hugo
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She’s got an indiscreet voice,†I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,†he said suddenly. That was it. I’d…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An Alcohol Will Preserve Anything But Not A Secret; People Have a Tendency To Talk Too Freely And Become Indiscreet When They Are Drunk.
— Pacifiersucker
Who Wrote These Indiscreet Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Indiscreet Quotes as follows: