“Discretion is a girl's best friend. Learn when to use it, and when to let it slip.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end — Leon Gambetta Copy Share Image
...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable. — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“Discretion is the survival one needs around friends who admires you but hate your hapiness and success, and would do anything so… — Darmie Orem Copy Share Image
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Use Fun & Humor. Humor lightens spirits, comforts through a challenge, brings people together, engages, and entertains. Bring delight and joy to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have… — William Carey Copy Share Image
I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence,… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
“By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it makes one have discretion between… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“UN-Impressive Acts of Indiscretion • Forwarding other people's emails without getting permission. • Throwing other people under the bus to save yourself.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
![“[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/edward-gibbon-710_discretion_the-discretion-of-the-judge-is-the-first_407442.png)
