Quotes About Silence

Because some things are meant to be private.

I think I've finally learned how to keep this big mouth shut.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them. They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Costis, I am speechless! Not noticeably, Your Majesty.

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.

Least said, soonest mended.

At one point I muttered, "You learn something new every day." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

where there is no peace, there are no trees.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.

Wasn't that your kissy face out there with the kid?" "Shut

Cammy!" I blurt out quickly, trying to keep her welling tears from gushing down her sad face. "He didn't say a word—to anyone. I promise.

She looked like someone who was used to having other people wait on her. I wonder what that's like, to never have to worry about filling the silence.

The moon slipped under a blanket of clouds

Joanna looked down at

Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.