Reticence Quotes
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
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More Reticence Quotes
It is not a Life at all. It is a Reticence, in three volumes.
— Of J W Cross's Life of George Eliot. Quoted in E F Benson As We Were (1930), ch.6.
There paused to shut the doorA fellow called the Wind,With mystery before,And Reticence behind.
bliss carman— At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
m. r. james— "Some Remarks on Ghost Stories", in The Bookman, December 1929; cited from Michael Cox M. R. James: An Informal Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 150.
