41 Quotations with Discretion.
- 1. Sir Francis Bacon: Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

- 2. William Shakespeare: The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my ...

- 3. Unknown: Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

- 4. Joseph Addison: There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discr ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an op ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without ...

- 8. E.M. Cioran: The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the dis ...

- 9. Cornelius Tacitus: He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man' ...

- 10. Democritus: The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discret ...

- 11. Lytton Strachey: Discretion is not the better part of biography.

- 12. Anonymous: Discretion is the better part of valor.

- 13. Thomas Hardy: A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are ...

- 14. John Christian Bovee: A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by nev ...

- 15. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: And there is another more general kind of discretion, for there is no man who do ...

- 16. Tennessee Williams: Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

- 17. Hannah More: Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

- 18. Francis Bacon: Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with ...

- 19. Denis Diderot: Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion ...

- 20. Marcus T. Cicero: Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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