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There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. — Emma Donoghue

I don't think ... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. — Lewis Carroll

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime. — Shirley Jump

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. — Lisa Guerrero

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. — Enzo Ferrari

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
(The Mill) — Anton Chekhov

It has a way of eroding barriers-that famous Yankee reticence-which would otherwise be impregnable. — Stephen King

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze — Brandon Sanderson

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide. — Jill Johnston

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. — William E. Gladstone

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. — William S. Burroughs

Reticences are as revealing as avowals. — Elizabeth Bibesco

When virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence. — Clive James

These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath. — Edith Wharton

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. — William Shatner

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain

Silence does not always mark wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense. — John Ashbery

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt

He sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others. — David Halberstam

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism. — Gillian Armstrong

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. — Orson Scott Card

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope. — P.G. Wodehouse

I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy — John Green

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst

I do not want to talk about it. — Don DeLillo

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. — Lord Chesterfield

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French. — Sara Sheridan

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. — Mark Twain

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be. — Marianne Moore

Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness. — David Brooks

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. — Pamela Stephenson