Discretion

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh
Deceit
Discretion
Temper
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman
War
Discretion
Glory
Sea
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
Biography
Discretion
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope
Discretion
Judgment
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel
Life
Discretion
Justice
Nothing
Respect
Sense
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
Discretion
Nothing
Philosophy
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
Life
Discretion
Perfection
Reason
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
Discretion
Duty
First
State
Years
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
Court
Discretion
Nations
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
Discretion
Duty
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Christine Keeler
Discretion
Hypocrisy
Word
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
Society
People
Control
Discretion
Exercise
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 Godwin
Nature
Discretion
Man
Right
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friend
Discretion
Enemy
Nothing
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot
Dignity
Discretion
Forget
Man