Top 34 Indiscreet Quotes
#1. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#2. We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
Mark Twain
#3. The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
Emile M. Cioran
#4. All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Tacitus
#5. There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
Sophie Swetchine
#6. An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.
Joseph Addison
#7. Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.
Jack Vance
#8. A lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
Agatha Christie
#9. Which is why Mom, when she's being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the "vet's office." Because that's where Dad brings people to take their balls.
John Scalzi
#10. One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.
Cardinal Richelieu
#11. I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.
Andrew Sullivan
#12. Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
John Donne
#13. Madame, you will have the goodness to tell me where that genius lives." The old lady did not seem surprised at this indiscreet command. She raised her eyes and said: "In Heaven!" Such simplicity baffled him.
Gaston Leroux
#14. It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
Aime Martin
#15. If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
Sydney J. Harris
#17. Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment - a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.
Dan Brown
#18. Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
Jose Saramago
#19. You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.
Lord Chesterfield
#20. Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
#21. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
#22. All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.
Elizabeth Warren
#23. The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#24. 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
#25. 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.
#26. The President's unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would gladly have traded it in for an indiscreet mistress.
Ann Patchett
#28. Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
Walter Raleigh
#29. You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical," he went on. "I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream.
-Lucien to Alice
Gaelen Foley
#30. I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.
LeAnn Rimes
#31. Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.
April Mae Monterrosa
#32. When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.
Anderson Cooper
#33. When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.
Kenneth Lonergan
#34. To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.
Richard Madden
