Quotes About Reserved

A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself.

You're a Capricorn to the core. Organized, loves structure, not driven by impulse, a master of restraint.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

I never made any public statements. At least, I tried never to make any public statements.

Ach, I've never been one for big declarations or releasing statements.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

I was more shy, staying in the background.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.

there was a different way I wrote when, even subconsciously, I was seeking male approval, male sexual approval: a more coy way, more reserved, more nervous about being perceived as angry or vulgar.

She was so reserved, he felt she had much to reserve.

But she's—she's really not much of a person. She never says much. She never makes any effort socially or any other way.

It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.

Scorpios are perfectionists... Scorpios are basically homebodies and dislike crowds.

Scorpios are, in fact, often deceptively calm, keeping their true feelings secret.

was, and remains, a sort of Sphinx of the American West: His eyes had seen things, his mind held secrets, but he kept his mouth shut.

I had already forgotten all that had happened and all that lay ahead, I lived only for the moment, for this reserved yet knowing girl who treated me with such obvious contempt.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

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.

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.' 'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.