INDISCRETION

Related Subjects: Caution, Fool, Prudence, Wisdom

1. An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to; the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.—ADDISON
   

2. That strange impulse of indiscretion, common to men who lead secret lives, and accounting for the invariable existence of "compromis­ing documents" in all the plots and conspiracies of history.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
   

3. For good and evil in our actions meet;
   Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.—JOHN DONNE
   

4. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.—THOMAS HARDY, The Hand of Ethelberta
   

5. Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice produce each other.—LAVATER
   

6. Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.—OSCAR WILDE