29 Quotes on Discretion

• Success is not always a blaring trumpet; sometimes it is the gentle reassurance of Undeterred strength unfolding - much like nature quietly wages its critical camouflage ever so gracefully.

  Author: Alice Kent

• Quiet words can stir the river of resilience, teaching us that gentle foreshadowing as equity pushes purpose tattooed deeply onto the heart.

  Author: Liora Menagement

• In a world quick to shout its chaos, the gentleness of silent endurance reveals the true mastery of the soul.

  Author: Freya Mitchell

• In everyday kindness, beneath a cloak of anonymity, lay the bravest adventures unseen; heroes not born from glory but continuously amassed from silent resolves.

  Author: Elara Smith

• A true friend is the one who will always help you move...the dead body when you said, 'I know a spot deeper than this.'

  Author: Joan Wells

• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• Discretion is not the better part of biography.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

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

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

  Author: John Selden

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  Author: Hannah More

• Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

  Author: Christine Keeler

• Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

  Author: Junius

• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

  Author: Pope Gregory VII

• Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

  Author: William Godwin

• There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

  Author: Marie France

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

  Author: Jean Fontaine

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

  Author: Denis Diderot

• The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

  Author: Henry Commager

• Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

  Author: Henry Commager

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

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

  Author: John Carlisle

• A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

  Author: Christian Bovee

• 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.

  Author: Harry Blackmun

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Author: Isaac Barrow

• 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.

  Author: Francis Bacon

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