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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