Jack Vance Quotes

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

I have always been discreet in my life.

I like to keep a low profile.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

Some doors are best left closed.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.