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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
 The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 
I have saved my life.  
 The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 
I have saved my life. 
A closed mouth catches no flies.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
 Question your grace the late ambassadors,
 With what great state he heard their embassy,
  How well supplied read more 
 Question your grace the late ambassadors,
 With what great state he heard their embassy,
  How well supplied with noble counsellors,
   How modest in exception, and withal
    How terrible in constant resolution,
     And you shall find his vanities forespent
      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
         That shall first spring and be most delicate. 
The better part of valour is discretion.
The better part of valour is discretion.
 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which 
is without discretion.  
 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which 
is without discretion.