Top Silence Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Bob Newhart 
Robert Scheer 
Aldous Huxley 
Sophocles 
Edith Sitwell 
Thomas Jefferson 
Brigham Young 
John Tillotson 
Charlotte Bronte All Silence Quotes
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman 
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
Thomas Starr King
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus
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Blaise PascalGeorge EliotAlbert CamusMartin Luther King, Jr.Aldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusElbert HubbardCharles Caleb ColtonLao TzuJosh BillingsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Confucius
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