Quotes About Reticence

I'm very secretive about my feelings, very shy.

This reticence has little to do with trying to protect oneself and everything to do with trying to protect others from one's problems, which shouldn't be theirs; it's one reason Japan is so confounding to foreigners, as its people faultlessly sparkle and attend to one another in in public, while often seeming passive and unconvinced of their ability to do anything decisive at home.

Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.

The darkness keeps its own counsel.

Perhaps it is the fear of being seen to do the wrong thing – the embarrassment of mistaking a patient's minor unwellness for a full-blown emergency – that holds young doctors back from calling the cavalry. This reticence has the potential to cost patients their lives.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence.

Un pò difficile capire come stavano le cose quando c'era di mezzo Elinor. In realtà non rivelava mai molto di ciò che pensava o sentiva. E questo gli piaceva in lei. Perché detestava le persone che vuotavano il sacco, e rivelavano subito le proprie opinioni o manifestavano i propri sentimenti...le persone che davano praticamente per scontato che l'interlocutore desiderasse sapere com'era articolato il loro meccanismo interiore. Il riserbo era sempre stato più interessante.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

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

he sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.

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

I have had so many things that I could say that I never thought at the time it was right so now I never say anything, I am just one of those people that kept myself to myself, I just wanted to play football and that's all I ever wanted.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

Reticence is a natural state. It is not hiding. People don't show themselves equally and easily to all. Reticence doesn't make one feel lonely as hiding does, yet it distances and invalidates others.

There could be many different Chinese characters for a name like hers, she explained. The characters her parents had chosen for her meant quietness. "Silence?" she tried again, sounding out the word, but then said the meaning was more like reticence. "It means for someone to choose not to express an opinion, to refrain from speaking.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

I'm very shy deep down.

You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.