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Silence Quotes - Page 31

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

Yehuda Amichai (1992). “Poems of Jerusalem ; And, Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition”

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9147, Delphi Classics

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.137, CUA Press