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Tag Name "Discreet" (47)

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We are discreet sheep we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Agnes Repplier
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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.
Maureen Howard
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
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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.
Nicholas G. Carr
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Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.
Andrea Mitchell
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Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear.
Philippe Aries
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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
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I am rather discreet and shy!
Richard Clayderman
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
Brian Eno
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
Vincent Cassel
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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
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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.
Willa Cather
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Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.
Dave Barry
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Love is . . . a madness most discreet
William Shakespeare
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
Duke of Wellington
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I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
Elie Wiesel
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
George Herbert
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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
Honore de Balzac
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The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.
Jake Owen
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Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place the rest is application which a discreet man may do well but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
John Selden
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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.
Jules Renard
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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.
Keith O'Brien
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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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