Quotes About Restraint

Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning. "Yes, I think so." "I think so too.

Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

the economy "is like a bird. You can't hold it in your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

Human sympathy has its limits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

When you get drunk you don't tear anything apart except yourself.

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly. 'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

Sometimes when you're around I've been tempted to kiss you suddenly and tell you that you were just an idealistic boy with a lot of caste nonsense in his head.

I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers….

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.