Discretion is the polite ordspråk

en Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy

en Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy

en Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
  William Shakespeare

en Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

en Under constrained discretion, the central bank is free to do its best to stabilize output and employment in the face of short-run disturbances, with the appropriate caution born of our imperfect knowledge of the economy and of the effects of policy (this is the 'discretion' part of constrained discretion),

en Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

en Politically correctness is just a polite way of saying lying, and they're tired of turning on the TV and seeing people who are so terrified of their arguments being invalidated by a simple word choice that they don't say anything.

en They're operating under a misconception and have been for many years. As long as they're polite in their critique, we are polite in our response. But if they're mean and rude, I tell them that.

en It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.

en The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
  William Hazlitt

en Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
  Jean Kerr

en I will of course be polite, ... That's what the American people expect their president to do, be a polite person.

en 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

en What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.

en As prosecutors, we're given a certain amount of discretion. Most use that discretion wisely and focus on crimes that are more serious.

en He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her.


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