Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

- Christine Keeler

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

- Evelyn Waugh

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

- George Osborne

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

- Hannah More

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

- Joe Torre

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

- John Ridley

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

- John Selden

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

- Lytton Strachey

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

- Philip Roth

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