Failing Quote by William Shakespeare

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

— Elia Suleiman

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

— Bob Dylan

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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 speaks when words cannot.

— Anonymous

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

— Dorothy Richardson

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

— Marya Hornbacher