quotations about silence
Shutting the f*** up is seldom a bad move.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
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Cerulean Sins
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, The Gospel According to ESPN
Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.
RICHARD FLECKNOE
Poems
It's not a bad idea for a politician to remember that no newspaper can misquote silence.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips & Quotes
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact--from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Theophrastus Such
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Ghost Sonata
Silence is the safety zone of conversation.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW
attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975
Silence should be cultivated as a great virtue; it keeps secrets and avoids disputes.
WALTER MATTHEWS
Human Life from Many Angles
I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
Do not too hastily conclude that silence is indifference. Indifference is not to care, not to act, not even to think or breathe. Indifference is inhuman and inhumane. Silence, on the other hand, is almost always premeditated, a willful act. Without silence there would be no sound.
JUSTIN BRYAN SNIDER
posted on daily quotation board at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong, October 17, 2006
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
THEODORE PARKER
"Justice and the Conscience", The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons & Prayers
Silence is a profound teacher and a hard taskmaster. Learn her art when it is offered; there is much to hear within her temple!
LY DE ANGELES
Witchcraft: Theory and Practice
Be silent or say something better than silence.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
O. A. BATTISTA
attributed, Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
In positions of power, silence is not an option.
MAGNUS LINKLATER
"In positions of power, silence is not an option", The Times, September 3, 2017
Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDE
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches