Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. La Bruyère.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. Bovee.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, 10 and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Bacon.

Discretion, the best part of valour. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye, / Misprising what they look on. Much Ado, iii. 1.

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In strange eruptions, and the teeming earth / Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd / By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, / Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples down / Steeples and moss-grown towers. Hen. IV., iii. 1.

Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all. Ham., iv. 3.

Diseur de bons mots—A sayer of good things; 15 a would-be wit. Fr.

Diseuse de bonne aventure—A mere fortune-teller. Fr.

Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime than in the punishment. Bacon.