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Silent Quotes - Page 8

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.141, Da Capo Press

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.381

No fool can be silent at a feast.

"The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, Vol. 5". Book translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Little, Brown, p. 417, 1865.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.96, Wellfleet

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

"De Oratore", III. 35, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47,

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “PENELOPE’S PROGRESS – The Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton”, p.57, e-artnow

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.23, Penguin