Reserve Quotes

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I try not to give advice unless people ask me.

It's no secret I'm a shy person.

Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.

Your highest female grace is silence.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

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

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

I am very shy with people I don't know.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I was painfully shy as a child.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.

I try not to delve too deep into policy.

I've always been the shy one.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

The Maghribis have just founded a town outside Fustat called Cairo. Jawhar, the Maghribis general, staked it out on his arrival in Egypt for his army, stores, and retinue. It now has different quarters and markets, as well as places for breeding livestock, facilities such as baths and inns, and even well-built palaces and useful facilities. Jawhar has surrounded it with a strong, high wall, which encloses a space three times greater than the built-up area: these are parks kept in reserve for the livestock in case of outside attack. Inside are offices for the administrators of Egypt, and a beautiful elegant congregational mosque tended by an abundance of clerics and muezzins.