#reticence

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

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy ↗

— John Green

#socialism

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

— Brandon Sanderson

#remaining-silent #reticence #humor

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

#cats #dogs #grace #reticence #words

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#remaining-silent #reticence #silence #talking

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#comfort #diogenes-club #misanthropy #mycroft-holmes #quietness