Discretion Quotes
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Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
— George Herbert
Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings
— David Sedaris
That's the whole point of ... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
— Andrew Thomas
Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the
— Loretta Chase
Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
— William Shakespeare
As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. - PROVERBS 11:22
— Rachel Held Evans
A secret spoken finds wings.
— Robert Jordan
Even in a hero's heartDiscretion is the better part. — Charles Churchill
Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.
— George Carlin
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
— Joseph Addison
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
— Denis Diderot
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
— Wiley Blount Rutledge
Forgiveness is the best part of valor ... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Discretion is a girl's best friend. Learn when to use it, and when to let it slip.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I didn't think he would, but I do believe I was right to ask for his discretion.' 'Thank you, Lady Daphne,' Wilson
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
— Jeanloup Sieff
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
— Francis Bacon
Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
— Assegid Habtewold
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
— Oscar Wilde
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
— Julian Fellowes
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and
— Eleanor Catton
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
— Bill Dedman
The better part of valour, is discretion.
— William Shakespeare
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
— Georg Simmel
A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name.""I dare say. But very few people use their middle names. — Edmund Crispin
I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
— George Osborne
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
— Julia Glass
We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
— Sue Grafton
What arises from discretion must be honoured.
— Jane Austen
Just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.
— Douglas Adams
In the Human Form..Man has been granted the faculty of 'discretion' and the power of 'discerning'..grows only through 'depths' of understanding Self!!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
— John Selden
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
— Benjamin Franklin
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
11A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.
— Anonymous
Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
— Trey Gowdy
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion!
— Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
— Alexandre Dumas
She lives at my discretion. I can take her breath. I can give it back.
— Karen Marie Moning
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
— Jean De La Fontaine
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
— Susanna Rowson
I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.
— Rudy Giuliani
Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
— Lord Chesterfield
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
— Claudius Claudianus
Abortion is a moral right - which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.
— Ayn Rand
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
— Jill Paton Walsh
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
— William Shakespeare
He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.
— Davis Bunn
Discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
— Benjamin Franklin
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
— Jeremy Collier
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
— Hannah More
Elvis is the soul of discretion.
— Kathy Bryson
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
— David Halberstam
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
— Andre Maurois
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
— Lord Chesterfield
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
— Barbara Tuchman
Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.Tea Party Teddy — Dianne Harman
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
— Henry Steele Commager
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
— Jean De La Fontaine
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
— Ani DiFranco
Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...
— Dante Alighieri
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
— Walter Scott
Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.
— William Shakespeare
I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.
— Shirley Hazzard
Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.
— David Foenkinos
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.
— George Carlin
Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.
— Eloisa James