Quotes About Reticent

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking's not it.

She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.

The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.

This is Jeremy, he doesn't talk much.

Off the court I'm always shy, I don't talk much. On the floor I'm a different guy.

It would take wild horses to get me to talk.

And shy as a coon in the daylight.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

I'm so quiet if you don't know me.

I am quite private about my personal life, and I don't talk much about it.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded.

I don't really like attention too much.

suddenly reluctant to go back into camp and settle in his shadowy den

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.

As a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent. Newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to coöperate with the government in the end.

The thing for me is that my natural state is to be reserved and not share.

I'm actually pretty reserved.

I am a very shy, introverted guy.