Mute Quotes

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

Beauty is a mute deception.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Discipline must come through liberty.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

O have a care of natures that are mute!

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

the mute protest in your own bones

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?