Love renders women discreet. [ Barthe ]
Discreet stops make speedy journeys. [ Proverb ]
Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. [ Proverb ]
While the discreet advise the fool doth his business. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The discreet hand does not do all that the tongue says. [ Proverb ]
Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed. [ Dryden ]
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. [ Wellington ]
The only confidence that one can repose in the most discreet woman is the confidence of her beauty. [ Lemesles ]
The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]
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. [ Helps ]
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]