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It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: A King and No King (act IV, sc. 3)
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As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 22)
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with
this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
nature.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part
I have saved my life.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at V, iv)
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Question your grace the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Constable at II, iv)
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Armado at V, ii)
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Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you
both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one
another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything;
for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old
folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the
world.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly at II, ii)
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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at II, iii)
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Author: Saki
Source: None
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Source: None
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The better part of valour is discretion.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
Author: French Proverb
Source: None
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Never say "oops" in the operating room.
Author: Dr. Leo Troy
Source: None
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I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Source: None
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