Marianne Moore on Silence
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
William Shakespeare on Silence
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare on Silence
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Penn on Silence
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Tom Blair on Silence
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaki
Thomas Neill on Silence
Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
Thomas Carlyle on Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Sydney Smith on Silence
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sir Francis Bacon on Silence
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Saadi on Silence
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.