If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Discretion Quotes
Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Neither should they nail up pictures.
Go cautiously where you suspect depth. Sagacity goes cautiously forward while discretion covers the ground. Nowadays there are unsuspected depths in human intercourse, you must therefore plumb the waters as you go.
Much that well may be thought cannot wisely be said.
Know when to speak – for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
There are no two people on this earth who could not be turned into deadly enemies by a devilishly contrived indiscretion.
Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.
