Silence Quotes

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
~ Marianne Moore
The rest is silence.
~ William Shakespeare
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
~ William Shakespeare
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~ William Penn
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaki
~ Tom Blair
Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
~ Thomas Neill
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
~ Saadi