Silence Quotes

69 quotations about Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Those that are silent profess consent.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

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