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Quotes About Taciturn

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
~ Douglas Adams
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.
~ Auberon Waugh
I was irritable, Kent was taciturn, Damien was withdrawn, and Bryan was downright sullen. It was hard to tell if Roderick had any sort of mood upon him; he did not seem like the type to inflict his humors on his companions.
~ Sharon Shinn
She never had no comment.
~ Beth Moore
I'm actually pretty reserved.
~ Ryan Leaf
There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.
~ Haruki Murakami
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.
~ Frank O'Hara
Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.
~ Ian Fleming
I am reserved; I don't speak much.
~ Badshah
he was amazingly tight-lipped, even for a guy. He was guarded, taciturn, which was probably hell on anyone in a relationship with him.
~ Laura Griffin
Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?" "Both," replied Elizabeth archly; "for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
~ Jane Austen
Ranger is a man of few words. He's Cuban-American, former Special Forces, he makes a much better friend than an enemy, and he's Vinnie's numero uno bounty hunter.
~ Janet Evanovich
I keep lot of my opinions to myself.
~ Lee Trevino
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
~ Pablo Neruda
I have said that you sang in the wind like the pines and like the masts. Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. You gather things to you like an old road. You are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices. I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated that had been sleeping in your soul.
~ Pablo Neruda
She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As a result of quarrels, blows, furtive and poorly chosen readings, my disposition became taciturn, wild, my head began to be spoiled, and I lived like a true werewolf.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty to be and weep has never been sufficient: The winds surround our griefs, the unfenced sky To all our failures is a taciturn unsmiling witness.
~ W.H. Auden
El hombre no dijo nada.
~ Maj Sjowall