Quotes About Silence

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

I thank you for not snoring.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

Words will build no walls.

The thoughtless are rarely wordless.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

Think much, speak little, and write less.