Discretion Quotes

Discretion Quote of the day

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

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

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.

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.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

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

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.

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

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.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.