Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Never say ‘oops’ in the operating room.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish, we should play the fool.

Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection and choked with too much nourishment.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man’s other inventions.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

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

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

Perish discretion, when it interferes with duty!

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Discretion is the perfection of reason and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Stones decay, and words last.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.