Discretion quotes

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◆ One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

- Oscar Wilde100

◆ 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 Blackmun99

◆ Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

- Philip Stanhope99

◆ Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

- Georg Simmel99

◆ Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

- Hannah More99

◆ 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'Connor99

◆ Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

- Christine Keeler99

◆ There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

- Marie De France99

◆ 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 Commager99

◆ A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

- Christian Nestell Bovee99

◆ Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

- William Godwin99

◆ Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

- Jean De La Fontaine99

◆ 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 Bacon99

◆ 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 Shakespeare99

◆ The age of discretion is the age of impotence.

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