Top Silent Quotes
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
All Silent Quotes
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Elias Canetti 
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I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
George Sidney 
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