Quotes About Restraint

A rug feels like a lion, but that doesn't mean you can ride it.

He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.

I shouldn't have hit him at all but it was only a little jab in the belly and it helped him to sober up still more.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

We've learned to come in sort of gently. We can't come smashing in like, "Hi! It's John and Yoko naked in bed with flags and Yoko screaming and him playing wild guitar in back." We're just coming in through the back door.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...

Let me once get from this country and give me a dungeon or a hovel in any other").

No," Ivy cried out, struggling against Rowan. "Let go of me.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I do not cough for my own amusement.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

The less said the better.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I? (looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body's assent)— Do not you all think I shall?" Emma could not resist. "Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me— but you will be limited as to number—only three at once.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

There should be moderation in everything.