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- Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt
- There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life. — Pamela Stephenson
- Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn
- Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound… — M. R. James
- A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst
- Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the… — Alex Webb
- There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler
- Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go… — Sebastian Smee
- In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel… — Okakura Kakuzo
- If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of… — Ambrose Bierce
- A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. — Lord Chesterfield