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
Edmund Waller 
Jaroslav Seifert 
Giacomo Casanova 
Marquis de Sade 
George Whitefield 
Edward James Olmos All Silent Quotes
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill 
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Barry Levinson
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The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
Brian Moore
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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
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I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis
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Popular Silent Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonMark TwainSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Jefferson VoltaireWinston ChurchillGilbert K. ChestertonAbraham LincolnGeorge Eliot HoraceMartin Luther King, Jr.Honore De Balzac
Napoleon BonaparteKahlil GibranGertrude SteinRichard M. NixonLao TzuBryant H. McGillCatherine DeneuveMiguel De CervantesNapoleon HillJames MadisonPublilius SyrusJean de la BruyereSigmund FreudJim RohnWilliam Butler Yeats
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