Taciturn Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
— Paul Klee
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all…
— Clive James
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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
— William Hamilton Maxwell
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
— Alexander Smith
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I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall…
— Frank O'Hara
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be…
— Jane Austen
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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
— Pablo Neruda
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Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.†“You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,†Jack said. “What’s glowering?†“Me,…
— Julie James
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The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his…
— Thomas Mann
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The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few…
— Douglas Fairbanks
Who Wrote These Taciturn Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Taciturn Quotes as follows: