Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines. ]
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.
As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.
Love is. . . a madness most discreet
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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.
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.
Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.
I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.
That meddling in other people's affairs. . . formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
I am rather discreet and shy!
Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
