Discreet Quotes

Discreet Quote of the day

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

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

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

I am rather discreet and shy!

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

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

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.