Dies Quote by William Congreve

Be a voice not an echo.

— Anonymous

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

— Michael Ondaatje

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little…

— Thomas Carlyle

I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love,…

— John Godfrey Saxe

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

— William Shakespeare

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

— Melina Marchetta

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

— Saint John Chrysostom

I will never allow another individual to turn my voice into an echo, for I was not born to be censored!

— Ruben Ledesma

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

— Charlotte Bronte

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my…

— Gillian Flynn

“A silent tongue does not betray its owner”

— Sheik Ahmed Hassoun

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man…

— Abraham Lincoln