The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
—Germain G. Glien
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one—if he had the power—would be justified in silencing mankind.
—John Stuart Mill
I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.
—Claudia Gray in Stargazer
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
—Marcel Marceau
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
—Dame Rose Macaulay
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
—Ernest Hemingway
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.… Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year—and therefore did.
—Archibald MacLeish
Silence is a source of great strength.
—Laozi
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
—Marcel Archard
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
—Mary Webb
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
—Edith Sitwell
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 speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
—Hugh Elliott
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
—Dan Quayle