silence quotes

• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. (Vaclav Havel) [day/silence/day/acts]
• And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [silence/sound]
• To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. (Samuel Johnson) [silence]
• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [silence]
• To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln) [sin/silence/men]
• Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates. (Thomas Mann) [speech/silence]
• Speech is the small change of silence. (George Meredith) [speech/change/silence]
• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ( Plutarch) [silence/wisdom/speech]
• Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. (William Shakespeare) [silence/joy]
• Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw) [silence/perfect]
• His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. (Sydney Smith) [enemies/silence/conversation]
• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. (Sydney Smith) [silence/conversation]
• I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. (Henry David Thoreau) [silence]
• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. (Henry David Thoreau) [silence/acts/hope-disappointment/painter]
• The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it. (Mark Twain) [silence/silence/silence/combination]
• I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. (Aishwarya Rai) [silence/willpower/advantage]
• When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real. (Britney Spears) [love/silence]
• Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your eyes by a group of actors on stage can be equally thrilling. I think we undervalue silence as a very powerful currency. I think we're frightened of it right now. We fill it at the least provocation. (Ben Kingsley) [silence/silence/being/eyes]
• I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. (Ben Kingsley) [think/more/silence/more]
• An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny. (Kevin Bacon) [night/silence]
• “If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.” (Matthew Perry) [silence]
• It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. (Brittany Daniel) [silence]
• I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family. (Cybill Shepherd) [silence/women/more/family]
• Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. (Marilu Henner) [silence/solitude/more]
• Silence is refreshment for the soul. (Wynonna Judd) [silence]
• “Don't suffer in silence, you don't have to, go to the doctor.” (Courtney Thorne-Smith) [silence]
• Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. (Muhammad Ali) [silence/think]
• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. (Wangari Maathai) [women/fear/silence]
• The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. (Simon Wiesenthal) [silence/church/forgiveness/housing]

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