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Thanks i' faith; for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i) We do not act that often jest and laugh; 'Tis old but true, 'Still swine eats all the draff.' - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page at IV, ii) What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, ii) Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Silence never makes any blunders. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged, Of one abyss, where life and truth and joy Are swallowed up. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fragments--Silence A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. - William Shenstone Shallow brooks murmur moste, deepe silent slide away. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), The Arcadia--Thirsis and Dorus One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions. - Cornelia Otis Skinner Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. - Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I, p. 363) The silence of the people is a lesson for kings. [Fr., Le silence du peuple est la lecon des rois.] - Jean Soanen Silence gives the proper grace to women. - Sophocles To women silence gives their proper grace. - Sophocles Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. - Sophocles, Ajax (293) To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. - Sophocles, Antigone (1251) The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. - Robert Louis Stevenson Let me silent be; For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. - Richard Henry Stoddard But let me silent be: For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. - Richard Henry Stoddard, Speech of Love (st. 4) Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. - William Wetmore Story, The Unexpressed Silence is like nightfall; objects are lost in it insensibly. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent. [Lat., Saepius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse poenitet.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims, also attributed to Xenocrates Silence, beautiful voice. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Maud (pt. V, st. 3) And I too talk, and lose the touch I talk of. Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is kindly silence when they brawl. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The After Thought, in "Punch", Mar. 7, 1846 Displaying page 8 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9
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