We know a couple of "quiet men" and my wife has told me "sure glad your not that way. You talk and you laugh and make me laugh. Just the kind of man I wanted and got."
As Shakespear once penned, "How can I love thee but by thine own willing?" Reasoning: Of all the women a man "imagines" he can choose from, there is probably only one who is willing to put up with him.
My first father in law was described by my Father, after the man had killed himself, as a "Tichay Blazen", "quiet maniac".