“Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.”
William Osler
“Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!”
Robert Burns
“Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.”
Mary Russell Mitford
“A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.”
Thomas Carlyle
“We had a man as dashing as Sheridan, as unique and picturesque as the slow-moving, taciturn Grant, as charming as Jackson, as witty as old Billy Sherman, as brave as Paul Jones.”
William Allen White
“Don't let nobody overshadow your greatness, for you were intrusted with this gift! So, protect it with your life if you must!”
Philip T. M.
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Elbert Hubbard
