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Quiet Quotes - Page 3

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.202, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.439, Collector's Library

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

"The Historians' History of the World". Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

"A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney".

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Andrew Murray (2007). “With Christ in the School of Prayer”, p.170, Lulu.com