Famous Quotes
41 Quotations with Discretion.
- 21. Philip Roth: I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I ...
- 22. Pope Gregory VII: It is the custom of the Roman Church, which I unworthily serve with the help of ...
- 23. Henri Frederic Amiel: Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means pres ...
- 24. Junius: Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
- 25. Jean de La Fontaine: Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy ...
- 26. Oscar Wilde: Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
- 27. John Selden: Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
- 28. Hector Hugh Munro: Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. ...
- 29. Marquis de Sade: So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud ...
- 30. The Holy Bible: The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a ...
- 31. Saki: Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of ot ...
- 32. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The better part of valour is indiscretion.
- 33. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
- 34. Hannah Arendt: Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticen ...
- 35. Conrad Black: While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legi ...
- 36. Harry A. Blackmun: By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, su ...
- 37. Christian Nestell Bovee: A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by neve ...
- 38. Edward Coke: It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to t ...
- 39. Rudy Giuliani: Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single hum ...
- 40. Harold Macmillan: He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.