Top 100 Quotes About Discretion
#1. Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
#2. " ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
Luther L. Bohanon
#3. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.
Anonymous
#5. [The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny ...
Edward Gibbon
#6. 22. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Anonymous
#7. The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Solomon
#8. The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...
Natalie Goldberg
#10. We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
Sue Grafton
#12. Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#13. Can it be out of discretion, and a reluctance to hurt, that they affect to be unaware of my existence? But this is a refinement of feeling which can hardly be attributed to the dogs that come pissing against my abode, apparently never doubting that it contains some flesh and bones.
Samuel Beckett
#14. Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.
Edmund Crispin
#16. Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.
Trey Gowdy
#17. Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart
Cassandra Clare
#18. Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the
Loretta Chase
#19. Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun.
Volker Ullrich
#21. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean De La Fontaine
#23. By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
Joe Torre
#24. When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,
or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,
farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
Laurence Sterne
#25. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#26. I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
Jeanloup Sieff
#27. Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.
Alexander Hamilton
#28. Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
Assegid Habtewold
#29. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde
#30. It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
Francis Bacon
#31. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#32. I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.
Scott Lynch
#33. 11A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.
Anonymous
#34. This had disaster written all over it. Jack wasn't exactly the picture of discretion-or sanity,for that matter.
Kiersten White
#35. I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
William Shakespeare
#37. If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
Jill Paton Walsh
#38. Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#39. By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#40. Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.
Charles Baudelaire
#41. And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Ani DiFranco
#43. Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt
#44. The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
Warren E. Burger
#45. The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#46. While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Susanna Rowson
#47. Apparently, he uses disguises sometimes in the course of his investigations. In his liaison with Mariah, he used them for discretion. He came to her once dressed as a chimney sweep. Quite invigorating, don't you think?
Deanna Raybourn
#48. Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.
William Shakespeare
#49. There's nothing you can do about growing older, and I should know. But growing up? That's entirely at your own discretion.
Nick Moseley
#50. There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
Pat Meehan
#51. Zeal should not outrun discretion.
Aesop
#52. He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
Claudius Claudianus
#53. It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#54. Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
Megan Whalen Turner
#55. One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benvenuto Cellini
#57. All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.
Elizabeth Warren
#58. There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Joseph Addison
#60. I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion.
Rene Barjavel
#61. I launched into a graceful ninja-like front roll, then stood my ground to face the monstrous heathen, fearless in my determination to vanquish the deadly foe.
Nah, just kidding. I bolted, discretion being the better part of not getting dead.
A&E Kirk
#62. It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...
Dante Alighieri
#64. I didn't think he would, but I do believe I was right to ask for his discretion.' 'Thank you, Lady Daphne,' Wilson
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#65. A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
Bill Dedman
#66. Last chance." He rolled out his big pink tongue like a dog. Though that was probably being mean to dogs. In all likelihood, canines showed more discretion. "Thee? Iths really long.
Kylie Scott
#67. The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
Emile M. Cioran
#68. The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him.
C.S. Lewis
#69. I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.
Stendhal
#71. To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part ... no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.
Roger Bannister
#72. It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
Aristotle.
#73. A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
Joseph Addison
#74. O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
William Shakespeare
#75. Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
Jonathan Swift
#76. You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
Benjamin Franklin
#78. I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.
William Shakespeare
#80. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#81. Mix Kindness with Authority; and rule more by Discretion than Rigor.
Various
#82. Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
William O. Douglas
#83. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
William Shakespeare
#84. The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman
#85. In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Murasaki Shikibu
#86. Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius
#87. Drake was a man who retrieved things for people. His reputation was well-known, and people came to him not only for his reliability, but also his discretion. Certainly that was why he was here now, being offered this ungodly sum of money to go back in time.
Dennis B. Boyer
#88. Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
#89. giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#90. The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
Henry Steele Commager
#91. Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father; "she times them ill.
Jane Austen
#92. Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've ... um ... entertained his wife.
Jojo Moyes
#93. Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
George Herbert
#94. The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.
Alexander Hamilton
#95. Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
#96. The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
Fran Lebowitz
#97. Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Tryon Edwards
#98. Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot
#99. Obviously no one has ever cautioned you against pricking the vanity of proud men or wild animals; neither is completely predictable."
"And which of those categories do you fit into?"
"I'll leave the choice solely to your discretion," he mused and bowed solicitously.
Marsha Canham
#100. To have submitted it to the legislative discretion of the States, would have been improper for the same reason; and for the additional reason that it would have rendered too dependent on the State governments that branch of the federal government which ought to be dependent on the people alone.
James Madison
