Discretion Quotes

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

A business tip, you never know who's having "pillow talk" with one another. Watch what u say, who u say it to, & WHO u talk about.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

Good walking leaves no track behind it.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

A good wanderer leaves no trace.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

The less said the better.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.