Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Gregory Peck

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some…

— William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which…

— Susan C. Young

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Norm MacDonald

“All sexual activity performed is at the discretion of the participants and is confined to only one hour.”

— Karen A.Miles

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with…

— Barbara Tuchman

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every…

— Warren E. Burger