#reticence

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#remaining-silent #reticence #communication

Never miss a good chance to shut up. ↗

— Will Rogers

#funny #reticence #silence #funny

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#psychology #remaining-silent #reticence #silence #gossip

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#initial #reticence #seriously #some #take

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#reticence #three #volumes

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

— William Shatner

#germanic #name #partly #passion #perhaps

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

— Pamela Stephenson

#early #early life #learned #life #myself

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#reticence #silence #humor

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#life #remaining-silent #reticence #wisdom #life