Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#discretion

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #discretion




Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗


— Isaac Barrow


#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ↗


— Jacob Lew


#bring #budget #call #category #decade

Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous. ↗


— Charlotte Brontë


#love #romance #woman #love

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. ↗


— Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #paraphrased #valor #harry-dresden

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. Blackmun


#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗


— Marquis de Sade


#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. ↗


— Junius


#discretion #necessarily #notable #talents

Discretion is not the better part of biography. ↗


— Lytton Strachey


#biography #discretion #part

All good art is an indiscretion. ↗


— Tennessee Williams


#good #good art #indiscretion

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it ↗


— Benjamin Franklin


#life #life






back to top