Barren Quote by George Eliot

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

— George Eliot

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may…

— George Eliot

Silence alone is worthy to be heard. Silence is of various depth and fertility like soil.

— Anonymous

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Silence is also speech

— Proverb

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

— Edith Wharton

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

— Susan Sontag

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more…

— Thomas Hardy

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

— Stephen Hough

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

— Ramana Maharshi