Top Discretion Quotes
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine 
John Ruskin 
John Adams 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Harry A. Blackmun 
Denis Diderot 
Evelyn Waugh 
Walter Scott 
Isaac Barrow 
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
Pope Gregory VII 
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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade
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The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
John Griffin Carlisle
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Marcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonFrancis BaconJohn RuskinDenis DiderotJean de La FontaineMarquis de SadeChristian Nestell BoveeWilliam GodwinJohn AdamsSandra Day O'ConnorWalter ScottEvelyn WaughChristine Keeler
Georg SimmelLytton StracheyBarbara TuchmanIsaac BarrowMarie de France JuniusJohn SeldenPhilip StanhopeHarry A. BlackmunHannah MoreJohn Griffin CarlisleHenry Steele CommagerPope Gregory VII
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