Quotes About Silence

There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like an echo, or rather the opposite of an echo. An echo came afterwards, but was there a word for what came before?

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Let the poor man mind his tongue