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Quotes About Silence

I don't talk about any of my projects until the production house makes an official announcement.
~ Asin
I don't say too much. Quavo and Offset - I don't talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.
~ Takeoff
Oftentimes in a marriage, you really don't have to say anything. You can sort of have a conversation without words.
~ Salim Akil
Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
~ Nancy Grace
One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.
~ Michael Seibel
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
~ Sue Perkins
Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
~ Teller
There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
~ Jenny Han
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
~ Robert MacNeil
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say;
~ Oscar Wilde
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
~ Oscar Wilde
MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY. Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
~ Oscar Wilde
but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.
~ Oscar Wilde
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.
~ Oscar Wilde
Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked before each man, And terror crept behind.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words
~ Oscar Wilde
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
~ Oscar Wilde
The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.
~ Oscar Wilde
People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men
~ Oscar Wilde
The less said about life's sores the better.
~ Oscar Wilde