(150 quotes found)
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
William Shakespeare
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool”
Spanish Proverb
“Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence”
English Proverb
“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 Sr.
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.”
Marquis De Sade
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