Ben Jonson Quotes

To women silence gives their proper grace.

Silence is the greatest ornament of the woman.

Jessica Alba's very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.

Silence is my dignity.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Modesty is the highest elegance

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.