William Shakespeare Quotes about Silence

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Silence is the perfect herald of joy.

William Shakespeare

Perfect, Silence, Joy

Speak low, if you speak love.

William Shakespeare

Love, Silence, Romance

'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [104]

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Grief, Silence

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

Silence, Jurisprudence, Innocence

William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.282

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Silence, Joy, Littles

William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

The rest, is silence.

William Shakespeare

Silence

'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [372]

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

Humorous, Silence, Laziness

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.32

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Silence, Joy

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare

Advice, Silence, Speech

1604-5 Countess to Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.64-5.

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

William Shakespeare

Silence, Maids, Tongue

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

William Shakespeare

Silence, Grace, Gone

1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

Keys, Silence, Enemy

William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.160