Communication Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is also speech

— Proverb

Speech is the small change of silence.

— George Meredith

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

— Emily Dickinson

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

— Jeanette Winterson

Silence is safer than speech.

— Epictetus

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

— Anonymous

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

— Dorothy Richardson

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

— Thomas Carlyle

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

— George Eliot