One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: truth age woman secret discretion trust



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Discretion is the better part of valor.

William Shakespeare

Stichwörter: discretion valour valor



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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 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.)

Ron Chernow

Stichwörter: discretion



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Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

Stichwörter: discretion tact



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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Jim Butcher

Stichwörter: paraphrased discretion harry-dresden valor



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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.

Tom Robbins

Stichwörter: wisdom discretion foolishness



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there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

Benjamin Franklin

Stichwörter: life discretion



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A secret spoken finds wings.

Robert Jordan

Stichwörter: discretion secrets sharing-secrets confidentiality



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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

Stichwörter: discretion secrets gossip



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Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw
so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not
like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so
lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate,
graces so multitudinous.

Charlotte Brontë

Stichwörter: love woman romance discretion



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