Silence Quotes - Page 14

• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Dumb, Apollo, Muse

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• Silence in woman is like speech in man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Speech

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Epicoene or The Silent Woman”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.

  Patricia Hampl

  Crazy, Hands, Play

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Miracle, Heaven, Suffering

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Important, Matter, Truth Is

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• I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea.
  And the silence of the city when it pauses,
  And the silence of a man and a maid,
  And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Stars, Men, Sea

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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• After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  World, Speech, Silence Is

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• If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

  Ivan Panin

  Wise, Foolish, Ifs

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• In Silence there is eloquence.

  Rumi

  Solitude, Eloquence

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• At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

  Dave Eggers

  Healing, Eye, Night

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.142, Vintage

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• One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Sound, Silent, Sounds Of Silence

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• Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

  Edward Hoagland

  Health, Sleep, Listening

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• You can't improve on saying nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Saying Nothing

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Live Life, Tragedy

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278, Princeton University Press

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• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Ears, Firsts

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• We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

  Charles Dickens

  Assertion

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• the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

  Hannah More

  Variables, Speech, Conversation

  Hannah More (1853). “Poems, sacred dramas, essays”, p.278

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• Friendship needs no words.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Real Friends, Needs

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Littles, If I Could

  William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

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• Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

  Tom Neil

  Communication, Math, Language

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• Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

  John Keats

  Children, Foster Children

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 1

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• An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Years, Space

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• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Buttons, Amir, Shutting Down

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

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• The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

  William Shakespeare

  Jurisprudence, Innocence, Failing

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

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• It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

  Kin Hubbard

  Talking, Literature, Plans

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