Sentence examples for kept to oneself from inspiring English sources
verb
Past of keep to oneself
For example, some Christian home-sharers subscribe to the following Bible-based advice: in essence, a grievance with a housemate is not kept to oneself, but shared with the perceived offender.
Opinions about composers were best kept to oneself if he didn't like them, and there was his ability to drop friends – to "corpse" them – in order to protect his creativity.
"I have never seen wisdom do any good kept to oneself," said Hubbard.
You may swear by the health benefits of drinking your own urine, collect small porcelain figurines of animals dressed as humans, or organize your holidays around Barbra Streisand's touring schedule, but these are details best kept to oneself.
Or perhaps they had just learned a lesson that Mr. Tale-Yax so clearly had not: better to keep to oneself than to risk the trouble that comes from extending a helping hand.
Basically, it's the same thing as Scalia not knowing anyone gay, and it may even be worse: In staying closeted to Scalia, these people may be tacitly sending him a message that homosexuality is something shameful that one should keep to oneself, or something that one should be afraid to speak about.
It's a Korean folk belief that stories are meant to be told, and that if one keeps them to oneself and hoards them there will be terrible consequences.
That is why it's probably best to keep such information to oneself.
But given the circumstances, it is probably best to keep that thought to oneself, preferring instead to concentrate on remembering some urgent appointment.
"If one should happen to experience an involuntary personal response," a mighty art historian once advised me, as if mentioning some embarrassing arousal, "one should always keep it firmly to oneself".
The episode also argues that, even if Christmas has lost most of its meaning, it is more important to "keep these thoughts to oneself in order to make the family happy".
