Discretion Quotes and Messages
Discretion is the key to many things in life, from maintaining healthy relationships to protecting your privacy. These wise quotes on discretion will teach you the importance of being discreet and offer guidance on how to use good judgment in all situations.
Silence is sometimes the answer.
Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
Some things are better left unsaid.
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
Stones decay, and words last.
Discretion is the perfection of reason and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Perish discretion, when it interferes with duty!
I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man’s other inventions.
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection and choked with too much nourishment.
Discretion is a very valuable asset.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish, we should play the fool.
Never say ‘oops’ in the operating room.
The age of discretion is the age of impotence.