Quotes on Reticence

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.