Silence Quotes

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
- Vittorio Alfieri

There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time.
- Thomas Campbell

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith

The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.
- Sir J Davies

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Silvan Engel

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
- Samuel Daniel

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert L Stevenson

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Richard Flecknoe

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
- Richard Flecknoe

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
- Pope Boniface VIII