Best Taciturn Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.”

Small Talk Taciturn

Book:Green Mars

Source: Green Mars

“En ocasiones mantengo cerrada la boca: es mejor ser prudente y cauto de pensamiento, taciturno e inmóvil como una sencilla roca, ¡qué charlatán, sutil y voluble como el viento!”

Poetry Wind Taciturn Charlatan

Book:Sólo lloré en otoño

Source: Sólo lloré en otoño

“Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”

Lasts Artist Details Confusion Frugal Prodigals Taciturn

Author:Paul Klee

“As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.”

Knows Littles Faces Common Laughing Poet Tall Sneer Taciturn

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!”

Cold Capacity Credit My Time Gravity Prudence Demeanor Blockheads Taciturn

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.”

“There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.”

Ifs Mind Wells Individual Particular Spring Peaceful Truthful Handsome Open Mind Open Minded Welsh Taciturn

Author:Auberon Waugh

“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 still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.”

World Long Stills Would Be Eye Moving Left Millions Blood Tears Ears Abuse Army Pursuit Teeth Instant Beast Distraction Thread Anguish Vessel Me Alone Tin Before Death Blood Vessels Taciturn

Author:Frank O'Hara

“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 handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

Whole Speak Rooms Disposition Posterity Unwilling Taciturn

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“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 when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.”

Ifs Way Made Moments Use Feelings Forget Laughing Normal Ownership Like Something Detached Cupboards Her Smile Taciturn

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”

Tall Voyages Taciturn

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“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, apparently.” Wilkins pointed. “Now that has to be a joke.” He turned to Davis. “You heard that, right?” Davis didn’t answer him, having spun his chair around to type something at his computer. “Let’s see what Google says… Ah – here it is. ‘Glowering: dark; showing a brooding ill humor.”

Said Dark Answers Boys Heard Type Computer Jokes Ill Chairs Google Yale Spun Brooding Taciturn

Author:Julie James

“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 thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

Source: Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book

“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”

Artist Nature Confusion Taciturn

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“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.”

Men Women Mistake Serious Jovial Taciturn

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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 so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.”

Men Trying Wells Might Sound Car Danger He Man Classic Riding Doom Pits Rims Blindfolded Taciturn Unicycles

Book:Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82

Source: Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82

“I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.”

Quiet Silent Listeners Taciturn

Book:Stories of Waterloo

Source: Stories of Waterloo

“The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.”

Secret Wise Keeping Secrets Taciturn

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country