Quotes About Taciturnity

#1. One learns taciturnity best among people without it, and loquacity among the taciturn.

Jean Paul Richter

#2. It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

John Addington Symonds

#3. [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

James Joyce

#4. I'm sorry, he says. No two words were ever truer.
Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She's the flaw in the paragon of life - the reason angels choose to dive to their downfalls in fiery comets of stardust.

Laura Kreitzer

#5. Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Robert Burns

#6. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Thomas Browne

#7. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

William Osler

#8. I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

Kelly Osbourne

#9. I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

Noah Baumbach

#10. The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

Charlie Munger

#11. Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)

William Shakespeare

#12. For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer.

Woody Allen

#13. I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

Ron Perlman

#14. My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Russell Brand

#16. If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Neville Marriner

#17. Fool me once,
shame on you!
Fool my bestfriend
your dead freakin meat

Sara Shepard

#18. But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

James Frey

#19. Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

#20. Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

Cynthia McKinney