#discreet

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

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#could #discreetly #got #half #known

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

— Arthur Wellesley

#discreet #mysterious #render #things #unnecessary

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#indiscreet #never #questions #sometimes

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#both #camera #capture #cases #could

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

#command #discreet #faithful #good #good manners

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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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

#always #anyone #cry #discreet #else

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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