Quotes About Silence

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Speech happens to not be his language.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

'Mercury' being a silent film needed a strong background score that could give you chills down the spine.

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn't spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it's her prerogative when she wants to speak.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.