Discreet Quotes - Page 2

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

  Carrie Fisher

  People, Humans

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• Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
  [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

  George Herbert

  Eye, Ears

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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

  Christian, Simple, Practice

  "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Used, Celtic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

  Arthur Helps

  Art, Business, Character

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• Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Flower, Giving

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• At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

  James Thurber

  Flower, Writing, Leaving

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.149, Library of America

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• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Artist, Giving, Doe

  Ezra Pound (1950). “Patria Mia”, Chicago, Seymour

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• Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Ocean

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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

  Girlfriend, Location, Lips

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• When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, History, Age

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.137

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• 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.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Men, Bob, Inside Man

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Real, Campaigns, Loyal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Dave Barry

  Office, Important, Affair

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec City is a very, you know, closed city if I may say. So it's not easy to be accepted living in Quebec City. So if you're from a different faith, you may be a bit timid in showing your faith. So I mean, you're already from a different country, you're an immigrant and hearing what you hear about Islam, you might not wish to be identified as a Muslim, and you may be very discreet into your faith and going to the mosque.

  Andre Pratte

  Country, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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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

  Death, Pain, Ideas

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Men, May

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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

  Character, Lakes, Serenity

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.152, 谷月社

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• While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.
  [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

  George Herbert

  Fool, Advise

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• I am rather discreet and shy!

  Richard Clayderman

  Shy

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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

  Bob Dylan

  Disease, Conceit, Egotism

  Song: Disease of Conceit, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Play, Issues

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

  Leon Redbone

  Eye, Keys, Personality

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• 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

  Thinking, Impact, Government

  "The Commissioners". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2004.

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