Quotes with silence

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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Ben Johnson Calumnies are answered best with silence.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Dorothy Dix Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bayard Taylor Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bryan Batt Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Shelley Winters Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
    Shelley Winters
    American actress (1920 - 2006)
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  • Philip Roth Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Barr For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Jane Austen From politics it was an easy step to silence.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Great souls endure in silence.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Sydney Smith He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • William Dean Howells He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Barry Cornwall I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
    I am where I would ever be,
    With the blue above and the blue below,
    And silence wheresoe'er I go.
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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