Reticences Quotes

#1. PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#3. I watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth.

The feather-light touch made me shiver. "What are you doing?"

"I'm drawing you, so that I'll have you in my fingertips while you are gone.

Frances Watts

#4. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.

Roger Kimball

#5. In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.

Ray Bradbury

#6. Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

#7. So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.

Ryan Buell

#8. Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.

Joseph Conrad

#9. The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

Annie Lennox

#10. So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved: the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

Booth Tarkington

#11. In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Corrie Ten Boom

#12. Treat people how you want to be treated.

Donald Trump

#13. I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.'

Joel Silver

#14. Does my request make sense in terms of my child's age and ability? (Am I expecting an eight-year-old to have perfect table manners?)

Adele Faber

#15. To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

Nik Cohn