“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
William Shakespeare
“Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy”
Christine Keeler
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private”
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
“Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool”
Spanish Proverb
