Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

I can't really comment on rumors.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

I'm on the sockless and un-sockless teams. I'm on both sides.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

I didn't say I was running, did I?

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.

In his over-anxiety not to offend the powerful who have done wrong, President Wilson scrupulously refrains from saying one word on behalf of the weak who have suffered wrong.

Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed—let him say nothing—promise nothing. Let no Committee or Convention—no town meeting ever extract from him a single word, about what he thinks now, or what he will do hereafter. Let the use of pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet in Bedlam.

A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other.

The most fatal of all neutralities is that which results not from choice, but from irresolution.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo