Whisper Quotes
623 Whisper quotes by 424 unique authors
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When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
— Jonathan Swift
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The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote…
— William Cowper
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of…
— Walter J. Phillips
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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
— Emily Dickinson
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Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As…
— Hartley Coleridge
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who…
— Penelope Cruz
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Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and…
— Les Dawson
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
— Rita Dove
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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
— Errol Flynn
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
— James Earl Jones
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper…
— Anne Lamott
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the…
— Walter Lippmann
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't…
— Earl Long
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree…
— Ai Weiwei
Who Wrote These Whisper Quotes
424 authors contributed a total of 623 Whisper Quotes, led by these top contributors: