Indiscretion Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Indiscretion


Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Donne.	1
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins. Ninon de Lenclos.	2
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. La Bruyère.	3
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate. Longfellow.	4
Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much and know little; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little. Cervantes.	5
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. Addison.	6
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion. Johnson.	7