#discreet

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing. ↗

— Jack Valenti

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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ↗

— Judith Martin

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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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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

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

— Arthur Wellesley

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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

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