Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Silence, Statistics

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5

• Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Silence, Achievement

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Defense, Opponents

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

• Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Argument, Weak

• A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Silence, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.350

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