"The less said the better."

Restraint, Silence, Words, Mystery

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"The line from Pulp Fiction-the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands-pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost-almost-share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Restraint, Memory, Humor, Cinema

"If you don't like your teeth, keep your mouth shut."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Restraint, Silence, Humor, Prudence

"The less said the better."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Restraint, Silence, Words, Mystery

"It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word "love"."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Restraint, Love, Excess, Irony, Values

"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far."

Mae West, American Actress

Restraint,

"Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit."

Joyce Rachelle, Filipino Author

Restraint, Patience, Anger, Limit, Warning

"We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Restraint, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder."

John Paul Warren, American Author

Restraint, Emotion, Control, Reputation

"It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

Restraint, Silence, Listening, Frustration, Communication

"If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Restraint, Silence, Peace, Communication, Control

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"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."

Love

"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must."

Literature

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."

People

"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched."

Wisdom

"It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering."

Morality

"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

Books

"However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

Romance

"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves."

Behavior

"Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think."

Character

"When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."

Nature