Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
William Wordsworth
There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.
Nicholas Udall
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
Sophocles
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Craig Moore
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent.
Archibald MacLeish
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
Abraham Lincoln
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
James Hervey
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle