(151 quotes found)
“Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is”
Lord Chesterfield
“One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it”
Benvenuto Cellini
“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
“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”
Philip Roth
“A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.”
Bible
“He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.”
Tacitus
“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.”
Tennessee Williams
“I think these things are up to the discretion of the borough president,”
Marty Markowitz
“FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.”
Ambrose Bierce
