Quotes About Reticent

#1. The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

John Ashbery

#2. Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when they do find something about her that they want, it is something simple within her.

Steve Martin

#3. The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

Dennis Miller

#4. This is why I am so reticent about our relationship
because on some basic, fundamental level, I recognize within me a deep-seated compulsion to be loved and cherished.

E.L. James

#5. I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Prince Philip

#6. The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan -
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.

Emily Dickinson

#7. One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Teju Cole

#8. In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Norman MacCaig

#9. Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

Graeme Murphy

#10. People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

Paul A. Offit

#11. She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

Nuruddin Farah

#12. I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

Shirley Hazzard

#14. Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

James Whistler

#15. History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

Stieg Larsson

#16. Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

Robert Smith

#17. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

Mark O'Connell

#18. Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

Stephen Covey

#19. Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

B.F. Skinner

#20. He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Daniel Coit Gilman

#21. People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Adrian McKinty

#22. The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.

E. M. Forster

#23. Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#24. the cross should make us all reticent to declare who is cursed by God.

Rodney Reeves

#25. When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

Ryan Reynolds

#26. It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.

Ivanka Trump

#27. I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

Madeleine Stowe

#28. Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

Ivanka Trump

#29. I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Jacques Audiard

#30. Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. "Do not answer Bryan; attack him!" he counseled in early September, adding, "Don't let him make the issues.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#31. You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

Amanda Craig