Famous Silence Quotes in English with Images

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.  You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolve itself into crystal clearness.  Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

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.

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.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Silence is more musical than any song.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

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Well-timed Silence hath more eloquence than speech.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Words are a heavy thing… they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

The rest is silence.

- William Shakespeare Quotes

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.