Joseph Addison Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

• Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

• The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Delight, Made

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.208

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