"Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments..."
- Assegid Habtewold
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."
- Augustine of Hippo
"Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance."
- Even Engesland
"Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion..."
"We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet."
- Eleanor Catton
"Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won..."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of..."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin ..."
- Charlotte Brontë
"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham"
- Barbara W. Tuchman