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Discretion Quotes

William Shakespeare quote: "Discretion is the better part of valor."
Discretion is the better part of valor. William Shakespeare
Lytton Strachey quote: "Discretion is not the better part of biography."
Discretion is not the better part of biography. Lytton Strachey
Georg Simmel quote: "Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with..."
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. Georg Simmel
Walter Scott quote: "Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in..."
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott
Christine Keeler quote: "Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. Christine Keeler
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
Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner... Alfred Kinsey
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. Douglas Adams
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. Sandra Day O'Connor
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
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity. Albert Camus
Benjamin Franklin quote: "there was great difference between persons and, discretion did..."
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it Benjamin Franklin
... I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion. Shirley Hazzard

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