Be check’d for silence, but never tax’d for speech. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
Silent - Silence Quotes
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it’s meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. (Much Ado About Nothing)
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden – not silence.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.