Quotes of Reticence - somelinesforyou

“ Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ”

- William E. Gladstone

“ A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. ”

- Raymond Chandler
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