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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 heart
Discretion 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

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. — Junius

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much. — Dan Scanlon

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

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. — Horace

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

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus

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

The discretion of the watcher versus the privacy of the watched was just another arms race; this one, I could see, would run and run. — Ken MacLeod

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

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart — Cassandra Clare

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. — Francis Bacon

Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father; "she times them ill. — Jane Austen

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments... — Assegid Habtewold

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. — Francis Bacon

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

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief. — Joe Torre

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

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies. — John Gregory

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

Zeal should not outrun discretion. — Aesop

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

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. — Tryon Edwards

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

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet. Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened. — Erin Bow

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

Mix Kindness with Authority; and rule more by Discretion than Rigor. — Various

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

10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11. Discretion shall preserve thee, — Anonymous

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

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. — Jim Butcher

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

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense. — Solomon

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

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

I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion. — Rene Barjavel

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. — Chanakya

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