- Silence is the speech of love,
- The music of the spheres above.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, Speech of Love
Silence about a thing just magnifies it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Ghost Sonata
I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, The Man from Vermont
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Touchstone," Fables
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON, De Augmentis Scientiarum
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Ghost Sonata
- Still-born Silence! thou that art
- Floodgate of the deeper heart.
RICHARD FLECKNOE, Poems
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT, The Unnamable
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