Silence Quotes
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.Robert Fripp
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.John Lah
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - And leaves behind only silence.Pam Brown
The price of seeing is silence.Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding".
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.Marcel Marceau
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.John Viscount Morley
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.Benjamin Franklin
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.Publilius Syrus
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.Peter Minard
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
