Quotations About / On: SILENCE

  • 41.
    Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
    (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 240, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).)
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  • 42.
    The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Address, July 15, 1838, Divinity College, Harvard University, Massachusetts. "Divinity School Address," published in Addresses and Lectures (1849).)
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  • 43.
    The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
    (Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. Pensées, nos. 201, 206, no. 201, ed. Krailsheimer; no. 206, ed. Brunschvicg (1670).)
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  • 44.
    That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
    (Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Spinks, in Under the Greenwood Tree, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1872). Some editions have the variation: "That man's dumbness is wonderful to listen to.")
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  • 45.
    Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
    (Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Women of Trachis, l. 813.)
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  • 46.
    Red river, red river,
    Slow flow heat is silence
    No will is still as a river
    Still.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.Nborn—British poet, critic. "Virginia.")
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  • 47.
    The mob in silence leaves their prince's side,
    And to the coming ruler gives its love,
    And is with mobs the custom.
    (Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40-96), Roman poet. Thebais, 1. 169-170.)
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  • 48.
    Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
    (Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian communications theorist, and Harley Parker. "Toward a Spatial Dialogue," ch. 16, Through the Vanishing Point (1968).)
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  • 49.
    Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
    (Epictetus (c. 50-120), Greek Stoic philosopher. Enchiridion, XXXIII, 2.)
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  • 50.
    Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
    (Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 177.)
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