quotations about silence
Silence has many beauties.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
My silence will convict me.
REFUSED
"Last Minute Pointer"
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine
When Silence speaks for Love, she has much to say.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDE
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
Unkempt Thoughts
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
Silence
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Winter's Tale
You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.
U. S. POLICE OFFICERS
Miranda Warning
Silence is golden, so they say. Except that silence, in a moral dilemma, represents complicity, as it does in a general legal -- or in a criminal -- matter. We are thus, presuming that we are moral beings, faced with a binary choice: remain silent or speak out. Each choice has consequences, and the path followed, its own implications.
ALAIN TSCHUDIN
"When silence is not golden", News 24, August 6, 2017
A silence so sweet
it repels all bees
with an inhuman excess
and ripples a tragic mask
in a goathead's bleached grin,
snow-fired, cow-fat, reflecting nothing
EDWARD BUTSCHER
Poems about Silence
To be silent oft is to learn.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
HORACE
Carmina
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"The Herons of Elmwood", Keramos and Other Poems
Silence must be heard.
ENIGMA
"Silence Must Be Heard"
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
Silence is so freaking loud.
SARAH DESSEN
Just Listen