Standoffish Quotes

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

Some people kind of are afraid of me.

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

I'm fun with people I know. But at the same time, people also say that I am a little cold, rude, and moody. 'Moody' is the word they generally use for me.

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

I know I can be very standoffish.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

I spend my life around people that are, like, bad people, if you want, and then deep down they're not. It's just the circumstances they've been given. A majority of people that are standoffish, it's because they lack the feeling that they're connecting to anything or that there's opportunity for them to get anything.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

People think that I'm very serious.