Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the... →
George Eliot
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Elizabeth I
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence... →
Michael Ende
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things... →
Edie Falco
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
Noah Feldman