Quotes About Indiscretion

#1. Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#2. Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.

Julia Cameron

#3. Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

Horace

#4. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave.

Timothy Keller

#5. Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#6. Anna Pavlovna turned toward him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his indiscretion, nodded and said: "I hope to see you again, but I also hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Mark Twain

#8. Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Isn't indiscretion the very definition of weakness?

Emily St. John Mandel

#10. Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

Sebastian Horsley

#12. No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Albert Camus

#13. For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom.

Ricky Jay

#14. How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.

Milan Kundera

#15. (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Harold Macmillan

#16. She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#17. My indiscretion was a part of my author mystique, just like Charles Dickens and Richard Madeley.

Rosen Trevithick

#18. When you are married to a powerful man, especially a handsome one, you expect indiscretion. It comes with the territory. What you don't expect is to find out about it on the evening news. ~ Linda Boyd

Jayden Hunter

#19. By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.

Patti Smith

#20. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

Harold Macmillan

#22. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it
let us know,
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will

William Shakespeare

#23. TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#25. INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

Anthony Trollope

#27. All good art is an indiscretion.

Tennessee Williams

#28. Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#29. My own seal." "Imitated." "My photograph." "Bought." "We were both in the photograph." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#30. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Thomas Hardy

#31. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

#32. Dad smiles at me. I suddenly feel so stupid for giving up eating when I was thirteen. The ants say: Forget about it. We're all larvae once.

A.S. King

#33. Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"
"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Maggie Osborne