SILENCE QUOTES VI

quotations about silence

I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

The Man from Vermont

Tags: Calvin Coolidge


Be silent or say something better than silence.

PYTHAGORAS

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical


Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well

Tags: William Shakespeare


There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE

Carmina

Tags: Horace


Never miss a good chance to shut up.

WILL ROGERS

attributed, Vaudeville Old & New

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Silence is so freaking loud.

SARAH DESSEN

Just Listen

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The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Herons of Elmwood", Keramos and Other Poems

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale


Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

THEODORE PARKER

"Justice and the Conscience", The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons & Prayers

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But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.

OVID

Amorum

Tags: Ovid


Silence is a profound teacher and a hard taskmaster. Learn her art when it is offered; there is much to hear within her temple!

LY DE ANGELES

Witchcraft: Theory and Practice

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Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

WALTER LIPPMANN

Public Opinion

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Oh Mary of silence
You pick my heart with a smile
Oh sweet Mary
Come inside for a while
Help me get a hold on you

MAZZY STAR

"Mary of Silence"


In positions of power, silence is not an option.

MAGNUS LINKLATER

"In positions of power, silence is not an option", The Times, September 3, 2017


What scientists have discovered is that silence allows an area of the brain, called the hippocampus, to do what it does best. And since the hippocampus is where our memories are stored and where we process our emotions ... it is critical to learning. Silence gives this really important part of the brain the opportunity to process, consolidate and strengthen itself.

JUSTIN COULSON

The Advertiser, August 29, 2017


The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- imperfection -- and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Marginalia

Tags: Edgar Allan Poe


Silence on the radio ... I don't know how that works.

GARRISON KEILLOR

A Prairie Home Companion, 2006

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If silence is golden like they say it be
If silence is golden then how rich I must be

LYNN ANDERSON

"If Silence Is Golden"


Here may be the real secret of silence. It may lie in the quality of impression that we receive in our consciousness. If we allow ourselves to be impressed by ugly things, by thoughts of strife and bitterness and hate, there is no silence for us. But if we receive only impressions of beauty and love, then we need never be afraid. In ourselves we shall find the companionship of peace. We shall be constantly solaced with silence.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


Great hearts are free of either want or wish;
They may be proud and richly clothe themselves
In lofty, burdenless, mysterious Silence.

CARMEN SYLVA

"Out of the Deep"

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