Top 30 Discreet Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Discreet Quotes from famous people such as Elizabeth Warren, Carrie Fisher, Benjamin Clementine, Joshua Cohen, Nigel Farage, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candida

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
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
Carrie Fisher
I always try to be as discreet as possible, so I wear black.
Benjamin Clementine
I’ve always been discreet – more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I’m doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I’m reading or running out to the movies. It’s the surveillance I can’t stand.
Joshua Cohen
It’s a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.
Nigel Farage
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
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.
Jake Owen
Perhaps ‘photography’ has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps ‘photography,’ as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.
Trevor Paglen
I’m quite discreet. I think I’d rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. ‘Live hidden, and live happy.’ Is that the same in English as it is in French?
Delphine Arnault
I’d love to grow a pair of discreet wings so I could just fly around a bit and impress people.
Joe Lycett
I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.
Bill Cunningham
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Duke of Wellington
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
Maajid Nawaz
My grill is intended to be discreet. It’s there because I enjoy jewelry.
Jill Scott
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, ‘It’s just you and me bro, and I want to tell you the truth: make a record of you and an acoustic guitar. Please. That’s what everybody actually likes.’ That’s so funny to me.
Devendra Banhart
I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
Leon Redbone
The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.
Charles Perrault
Ancelotti’s teams are more balanced. It’s a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also his discreet profile. I am also like that.
Tite
I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.
Sophia Loren
I don’t know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he’s dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He’s this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.
Tom Sizemore
The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet.
Judith Miller
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
Milan Kundera
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
Craig Brown
My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?
Tom Sizemore
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people’s breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
Anne Campbell
My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it’s common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it’s my family’s spirituality, so I don’t want to keep it secret.
Princess Nokia
I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
Junot Diaz
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Judith Martin
I have a short temper – I think it’s part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
Julian Lennon