Silent Quotes

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cheese, Subject, Poets

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot

Human, Two, Memories

This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Audre Lorde

Words, Afraid, Speak

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

Best, Except, Birds

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Speak, Ten, Thousand

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Single, Saying

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Though

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, War, Laws

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer

Nature, Best, Give

In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, War, Laws

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac

Art, Motherhood, Minute

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
Ezra Taft Benson

Greatest, Soul, Within

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt

Life, Death, Human

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
Donald Trump

Answer, Attack, Obama

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de Balzac

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cannot, Speak, Thereof

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats

May, National, Taste

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Ocean, Green

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats

Truth, Times, Gift

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman

History, Science, Thought

Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace

Someone, Person, Modest

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros

Respect, Woman, Young

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

Time, End, Long

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus

Regret, Often, Spoken

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant

Act, Prepared, Remain

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