silence Quotes

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

topic:silence patience

“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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“I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:life silence

“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“God is silent . . . now if we can only get Man to shut up.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

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“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“They have made the happy discovery, that the way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . .”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

topic:beauty silence

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