Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

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

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

When you learn to discipline your tongue, you'll stop scrutinizing, judging and condemning others. You'll then focus on your own weaknesses.

— Mufti Ismail Menk