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Silence Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A yawn is a silent shout.
- If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
- Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On…
- Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley