(151 quotes found)
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
William Shakespeare
“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
“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
“Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool”
Spanish Proverb
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“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
“Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence”
English Proverb
“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 Sr.
“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
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”
John Adams
