SILENCE QUOTES IV

quotations about silence


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Shutting the f*** up is seldom a bad move.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON
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Cerulean Sins


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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

MUHAMMAD ALI

attributed, The Gospel According to ESPN

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Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.

RICHARD FLECKNOE

Poems

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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


Silence is the safety zone of conversation.

ARNOLD H. GLASOW

attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975


In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Ghost Sonata

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Silence should be cultivated as a great virtue; it keeps secrets and avoids disputes.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


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

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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


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

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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

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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

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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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


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


Be silent or say something better than silence.

PYTHAGORAS

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical


Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Silence