I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

I do not want to talk about it.

We do get quite a lot of reticence about it.

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."

(The Mill)