You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze
Stichwörter: humor remaining-silent reticence
Stichwörter: humor silence reticence
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."
(The Mill)
Stichwörter: opinions reticence trouble
I do not want to talk about it.
Don DeLilloStichwörter: reticence interviews
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honoré de BalzacStichwörter: remaining-silent silence reticence psychology gossip
There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: clubs sherlock-holmes silence reticence misanthropy comfort quietness diogenes-club mycroft-holmes
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma DonoghueStichwörter: manners politeness reticence
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