Mark Twain Quotes About Silence

• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

• The truth hurts, but silence kills.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Silence, Truth Hurts

• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Epic, Drawing, Silence

• The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

  Mark Twain

  Silence, Progressive, Achieve

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Fire, Silence

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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