Shhhhh! Be quiet. This is a collection of proverbs and quotes on silence.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith RichardsA silent woman is a gift from God
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous HuxleyAll I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
Sylvia PlathBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Abraham LincolnDeath 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.
Oscar WildeDon't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Even silence is an answer.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo NerudaI prefer to quote people who say nothing.
MinkukelIt takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Ernest HemingwayIt was so quiet in there you could have heard a fly fart.
Bill BrysonSource: Lost Continent
Let us have the luxury of silence.
Jane AustenMusic is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert FrippMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith SitwellNever miss a good chance to shut up.
Will RogersNo wisdom like silence.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da VinciSilence gives consent.
If you don't object to something people will assume that you agree with it.Silence is music to a wise man.
Silence is the best answer to the stupid.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis BaconSilent worms dig holes in the walls.
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there’s only wind and smoke in the world.
The best answer to anger is silence.
The fruit of silence is tranquility.
The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night.
Victoria DurnakThe silent dog is the first to bite.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George CarlinWhen I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
Wislawa SzymborskaWhere the speechless unite in a silent accord.
Pink FloydSource: Lyrics: On the Turning Away
Wisdom consists of ten parts; nine parts of silence and one part with few words.
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
(unknown author)Writing is a struggle against silence.
Carlos FuentesYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleQuoted: Sherlock Holmes