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