Discreet Quotes

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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

  Duke of Wellington

  Inspirational, Unnecessary Things, Mysterious

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• Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Character, People

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

  John Dryden

  Secret, Favors, Fairy

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• I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

  Junot Diaz

  Persons

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

  Vincent Cassel

  Minutes

  "Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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• If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.

  Milan Kundera

  Talking, Two, People

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• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

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

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Teenager, Morality

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• The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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

  Anita Hill

  Use, Should

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

  Wade Davis

  Hero, Perfect, Brave

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

  Aeschylus

  Lessons, Late, Discretion

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• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Office, Faithful, Good Man

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

  Christina Hendricks

  Thinking, Advice, Would Be

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

  Jack Valenti

  Understanding, Edginess, Nerves

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• The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

  Hilary Mantel

  Flower, Fate, Men

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• 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.

  Judith Martin

  Pregnancy, Able, Morality

  Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr

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• They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.

  Anne Campbell

  People, Suffering, Levels

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• 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.

  Charles Perrault

  Brother, Children, Littles

  Charles Perrault (2016). “Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.2, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

  Nicole Krauss

  Pain, Powerful, Emotion

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Albert Pike

  Kindness, Office, Prudent

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

  Jeremy Taylor

  Fear, Parent, Superstitions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185

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• In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

  Richard Davidson

  Meditation, Mind, Moments

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

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Tilt, Weapons

  "The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".

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