SILENCE QUOTES V

quotations about silence

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

LAWRENCE DURRELL

Justine


In positions of power, silence is not an option.

MAGNUS LINKLATER

"In positions of power, silence is not an option", The Times, September 3, 2017


Silence is golden, so they say. Except that silence, in a moral dilemma, represents complicity, as it does in a general legal -- or in a criminal -- matter. We are thus, presuming that we are moral beings, faced with a binary choice: remain silent or speak out. Each choice has consequences, and the path followed, its own implications.

ALAIN TSCHUDIN

"When silence is not golden", News 24, August 6, 2017


Silence is the safety zone of conversation.

ARNOLD H. GLASOW

attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975


Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Will to Power

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


If all the world were music,
Our hearts would often long
For one sweet strain of silence.
To break the endless song.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"If All the Skies"

Tags: Henry Van Dyke


There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE

Carmina

Tags: Horace


To women silence is the best ornament.

SOPHOCLES

Ajax

Tags: Sophocles


There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale


Silence is true wisdom's reply.

ANONYMOUS


It's not a bad idea for a politician to remember that no newspaper can misquote silence.

E. C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips & Quotes


Oh Mary of silence
You pick my heart with a smile
Oh sweet Mary
Come inside for a while
Help me get a hold on you

MAZZY STAR

"Mary of Silence"


But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.

OVID

Amorum

Tags: Ovid


So scream your heart out
You are the chosen
You got to show them
Silence is the enemy
Scream it out loud
We are the broken
We got to show them
Silence is the enemy

PAPA ROACH

"Silence Is the Enemy"


My silence will convict me.

REFUSED

"Last Minute Pointer"


You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.

U. S. POLICE OFFICERS

Miranda Warning


Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well

Tags: William Shakespeare


I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

The Man from Vermont

Tags: Calvin Coolidge


A silence so sweet
it repels all bees
with an inhuman excess
and ripples a tragic mask
in a goathead's bleached grin,
snow-fired, cow-fat, reflecting nothing

EDWARD BUTSCHER

Poems about Silence