eloquent silence Quotes

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.