Quotes About Silence

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.

You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.