#discreet

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

#beliefs #christians #cross #discreet #hope

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

— Edmund Waller

#could #discreetly #got #half #known

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

#actions #afraid #chose #dishonour #family

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

#certainly #discreet #even #ever #i

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

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

#almost #contribution #days #did #discreet

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

— Arthur Wellesley

#discreet #mysterious #render #things #unnecessary

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

#american politics #anything #aware #because #clinton

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