Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

The inarticulate speak longest.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.

Words are music, really.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.