Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

I've nothing to say.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

The rest, is silence.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

You can't improve on saying nothing.