Silence Quotes
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.Author Unknown
The rest is silence.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Their silence is sufficient praise.Terence
Nothing is more useful than silence.Menande
Oppression can only survive through silence.Carmen de Monteflores
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.Meister Eckhart
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.William Shakespeare
Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...Jacqui We
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.Archibald MacLeish
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
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
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Beckett
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Charles De Gaulle
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
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
The only successful substitute for brains is silence.Unknown
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.Marcel Marceau
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.Seneca
cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool
With silence favor me.Horace
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.Archibald Mc Leish
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
