silence quotes

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

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

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

I am rather inclined to silence.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.