Top 122 Discreet Quotes & Sayings

I'd love to grow a pair of discreet wings so I could just fly around a bit and impress people.

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

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

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

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

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.

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I always try to be as discreet as possible, so I wear black.

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.

I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.

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.

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

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'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

I am rather discreet and shy!

I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.

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

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

My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.

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.]

I have always been discreet in my life.

Remember, its all about you and the dress. Nothing more, so keep the accessories very discreet.

Bob Corker was not the inside man that, certainly, Senator [Jeff] Sessions was. And he doesn`t telegraph what`s going on. He`s been much more discreet about that.

The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

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

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

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

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