Quotes About Silence

Children should be seen and not heard.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

The less men think; the more they talk.

You lose it if you talk about it.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and kings, Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

My life seems to have become suddenly hollow, and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.

Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.