One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar WildeTags: truth age woman secret discretion trust
Discretion is the better part of valor.
William ShakespeareTags: discretion valour valor
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 ChernowTags: discretion
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings
David SedarisTags: discretion tact
Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
Jim ButcherTags: paraphrased discretion harry-dresden valor
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 RobbinsTags: wisdom discretion foolishness
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it
Benjamin FranklinTags: life discretion
A secret spoken finds wings.
Robert JordanTags: discretion secrets sharing-secrets confidentiality
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
Julian FellowesTags: discretion secrets gossip
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.
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