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Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jean Anouilh


Category: Oration and Silence

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1. "Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

Thomas Carlyle, "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays"

Other categories: Time and Passing


2. "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

Thomas Hardy


3. "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics


4. "Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery, "The Life of William Pitt"


5. "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

Henry Brooks Adams

Other categories: God and Religion


6. "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."

Aldous Huxley, "Point Counter Point"


7. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Other categories: Good and Evil


8. "Silence is a text easy to misread."

Alfred Angelo Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"


9. "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Other categories: Health and Alcohol


10. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility


11. "As was his language so was his life."

Seneca the Younger

Other categories: Marriage


12. "Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

John Wayne

Other categories: Art and Culture


13. "Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover

Other categories: Various


14. "A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent."

Danish proverb

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


15. "Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Marriage


16. "A man's ruin lies in his tongue."

Egyptian proverb

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


17. " I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


18. "If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement


19. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."

Karel Čapek

Other categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals


20. "There were grammatical errors even in his silence."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


21. "A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something."

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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


22. "The eye tells what the tongue would hide."

Chief Joseph


23. "The silence of a wise man is always meaningful."

Leo Strauss

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


24. "Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

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25. "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."

Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"


26. "Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"


27. "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

Carol Burnett


28. "A diplomat is someone who can speak without saying anything."

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Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy


29. "An open mind does not always require an open mouth."

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Other categories: Intellect, Judgement


30. "The eyes of men speak words the tongue cannot pronounce."

Native American proverb


31. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."

Robert Fripp

Other categories: Art and Culture


32. "One picture is worth ten thousand words."

Frederick R. Barnard

Other categories: Art and Culture


33. "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Robert Lee Frost


34. "When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly."

Jewish proverb


35. "The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent."

Alfred Brendel


36. "When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Victor Hugo

Other categories: Woman and Man


37. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill

Other categories: Bravery and Fear


38. "Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Marcel Achard

Other categories: Woman and Man


39. "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Rudyard Kipling


40. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night"

Other categories: Art and Culture


41. "Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics


42. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z ; X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Success and Fame


43. "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."

George Eliot


44. "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgement to hold their tongues."

Jean de La Bruyere

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement


45. "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


46. "Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."

Joseph Joubert

Other categories: Art and Culture


47. "To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Other categories: Truth and Falsity


48. "Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use."

Samuel Butler


49. "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other categories: Joy and Sadness


50. "Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."

Benjamin Disraeli

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