| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d105245 | "I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter." | remaining-silent reticence silence | Lewis Carroll | |
| 73010e2 | Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. | loquacity remaining-silent reticence silence | William S. Burroughs | |
| 3c38cd5 | 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. | psychology remaining-silent reticence silence | Honoré de Balzac | |
| bf29acc | I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. | politeness reticence | Emma Donoghue | |
| d9fed06 | Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own real interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else... . Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child! | innocence liberation privacy reticence self-interest shame | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |