Quotes about silence

Midnight brought on the dusky hour

Friendliest to sleep and silence.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden— "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

The silence of flattery is sometimes equal to the most positive and authentic evidence.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

It was by a great miracle of genius assuredly that Carlyle contrived to admire simultaneously two things so irreconcilably opposed as silence and Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell was the very reverse of a strong, silent man. Cromwell was always talking, when he was not crying.

Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either.

Christine would surely be talking, even if she had only an ape as audience. To her, any silence was as great a challenge as a blank canvas; it had to be filled with the sound of her own voice.

Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.

Silence is the virtue of a fool.