Silence Quotes


183 quotes:

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Expression Quotes Silence Quotes
"My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o"
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment"
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it."
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
Author: Wilde Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave"
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Silence is a source of great strength."
Author: Tzu Quotes Category: Irish Poet Quotes Silence Quotes
"Into our deep, dear silence."
Author: Browning Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
Author: Einstein Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence"
Author: Shaw Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword"
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech"
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills."
Author: Wordsworth Quotes Category: Silence Quotes Sleep Quotes
"Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us."
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
Author: Eliot Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."
Author: Churchill Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Silence is a friend who will never betray"
Author: Confucius Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
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