Top 37 Quotes About Taciturn
#1. Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
Clive James
#2. To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
#4. He started out by saying that people were describing me as a taciturn and withdrawn person and he wanted to know what I thought. I answered, It's just that I don't have much to say. So I keep quiet.
Albert Camus
#5. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Jane Austen
#7. Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.
Ian Fleming
#8. Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#9. Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
Pablo Neruda
#10. Say she had nefarious motives."
Davis looked over at Jack with a bemused grin. "Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a
Yale boy."
"You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering," Jack said.
"What's glowering?"
"Me, apparently.
Julie James
#11. Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.
Lily Koppel
#12. It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
#15. One learns taciturnity best among people without it, and loquacity among the taciturn.
Jean Paul Richter
#16. Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.
Gord Sellar
#17. There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.
Auberon Waugh
#18. In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
Clive Sinclair
#19. None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
#20. Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry - he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood - or for some darker reason.
Robert Galbraith
#21. They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.
Emily Bronte
#22. But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. Jason looked down at her with smoldering eyes in a taciturn face. "You'll have to do something about Mumbles before we come back for Thanksgiving, Gracie," he told her quietly. "Kittie's allergic to cats.
Diana Palmer
#24. A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities.
J.K. Rowling
#25. Katie." He groaned. "I burn for you."
Just a few husky words, but coming from a man so taciturn, she thought they must equal reams of poetry.
Tessa Dare
#26. As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
#27. People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
Adrian McKinty
#28. Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
Rufus Sewell
#29. I may be a loser, but hey, at least I'm a loser who can do magic, right?
Rachel Hawkins
#30. Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
Shia Labeouf
#31. If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#32. Schadenfreude is so nutritious.
Will Self
#33. He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#34. Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream' is going crazy.
R.D. Laing
#35. Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.
Kathy Mckeon
#37. The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong
who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?
Larry Watson
