Silence Quotes
69 quotations about Silence
The unspoken word never does harm.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Silence implies consent.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
Still waters run deep.
A silent mouth is melodious.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Authors on Silence
Arabian Proverb
Jane Austen
Francis Bacon
Walter Bagehot
Francis Beaumont
Samuel Beckett
Josh Billings
Leroy Brownlow
Robert Burns
Thomas Carlyle
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Winston Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
Charles Caleb Colton
Confucius
Calvin Coolidge
R A Dickson
Benjamin Disraeli
John Dryden
Ralph Waldo Emerson