Silence Quotes

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epictetus
- Silence
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

A.M. Homes
- People
- Thinking
- Scary

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato
- May
- Silence
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Albert Camus
- Reason
- Silence
- Disgust
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry
- Believe
- Silence
- Counts
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Donald Justice
- Silence
In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.

Bee Wilson
- Family
- Book
- Alone
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Dino De Laurentiis
- Time
- Silence
- Red