#silence

Silence is more eloquent than words. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#more #silence #than #words

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conversation #great #silence

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#makes #men #protest #should #silence

Silence is the wit of fools. ↗

— Anatole France

#silence #wit

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection

Never be bullied into silence. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#into #never #silence

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. ↗

— Theresa May

#experience #heard #i #interesting #politician