Famous Quotes - Tags - Silence
- A noiseless patient spider, More
- a painful privacy
learning to live without words.
E.P. “It looks like... More
- A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time. More
- A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke; More
- Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come. More
- All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune. More
- And more I may not write of, for they that cleave
The waters of sleep can make a chattering... More
- And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song. More
- And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound. More
- And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an... More
- As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally... More
- Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech. More
- Be silent always when you doubt your sense;
And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: More
- Because all night you have not turned to us or spoken
It is time for you to wake; More
- But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our... More
- Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere,... More
- Crouching down where nothing stirs
In the silence of the furze,
Crouching down again to... More
- Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the... More
- Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? More
- Do you like me?
How absurd!
What’s a question like that?
What’s a silence like... More
- Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge? More
- Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is... More
- Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned. More
- For both parties, the most disagreeable way of responding to a polemic is to be angry and keep... More
- frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound More
- Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the... More
- Had I but time—as this fell sergeant, Death,
Is strict in his arrest—O, I could tell... More
- His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional... More
- Hush! Caution! Echoland! More
- Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. More
- I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing; when I am... More
- I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when... More
- I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. More
- I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. More
- I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. More
- I like your silence, it the more shows off
Your wonder. More
- I love order. It’s my dream. A world where all would be silent and still and each thing in its... More
- I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence, More
- I shall assume that your silence gives consent. More
- I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. More
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so... More
- I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where... More
- If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb. More
- If we would enjoy the most intimate society with that in each of us which is without, or above,... More
- If you keep your mouth shut, even the gods can do nothing to you. More
- In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when... More
- In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility. More
- In the still of the night. More
- In war personal revenge maintains its silence. More
- It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. More
- It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its... More
- It was like being quite alone on the roof of the world. I felt that if I were to go to the edge... More
- Jaques. Why, ‘tis good to be sad and say nothing.
Rosalind. Why then ‘tis good to be a post. More
- Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. More
- Life became a pregnant silence, but it was understood that the silence was to lead nowhere. More
- Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence. More
- Madam, you have bereft me of all words. More
- Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools’ Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf. More
- No one
bears witness for the
witness. More
- No, I will be the pattern of all patience,
I will say nothing. More
- Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss.... More
- O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader!... More
- Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations
And the... More
- Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. More
- Public administrators would get along better if they would restrain the impulse to butt in or be... More
- Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker. More
- Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love... More
- Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. More
- Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one. More
- Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. More
- Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. More
- Silence is an ornament for women. More
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The... More
- Silence is safer than speech. More
- Silence is the best response to mystery. More
- Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself. More
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. More
- Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the... More
- Silence is the most intolerable of answers. More
- Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. More
- Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. More
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm... More
- Silence is to all creatures thus attacked the only means of salvation; it fatigues the Cossack... More
- Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. More
- silent as a man being shaved. More
- Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths... More
- Silent, I lost the muse. Return, Apollo!
Tomorrow let loveless, let lover tomorrow make love. More
- Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm. More
- Slowly he entered dark and silence and lay there for so long that with what judgement remained he... More
- Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he... More
- Soundless as dots—on a Disc of Snow— More
- Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead, More
- Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. More
- Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech. More
- Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still... More
- Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent... More
- Summoning a child’s voice from a webfoot stone,
Never never oh never to regret the bugle I... More
- Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier. More
- That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. More
- The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint. More
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