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Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)
— Jean-Yves Leloup
Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.
— Tahar Djaout
Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence.
— Brian Morton
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
— Thomas E. Mann
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
— Dorothy Richardson
Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath's corner — Munindra Misra
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,
— Susan Sontag
Silence is full of speech.
— Penelope Wilcock
It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.
— Marty Rubin
Silence sweeter is than speech.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
— Cato The Younger
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
— Publilius Syrus
Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
— Thomas Carlyle
True silence is the speech of lovers.
— Catherine Doherty
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
— Michael Kinsley
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
— Ben Jonson
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
— Dionysius I Of Syracuse
Speech is silver. Silence is golden.
— Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
— Thomas Merton
True Silence is really endless speech.
— Ramana Maharshi
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
— Freya Stark
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
— Umar
More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
— L.M. Montgomery
There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
— Thomas Merton
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
— Muriel Spark
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
— Margaret Atwood
Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening.
— Ellen F. Davis
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
— Aeschylus
Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder.
— Cecelia Ahern
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
— Susan Griffin
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
— Edith Wharton
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
— Catherine Doherty
Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.
— Okey Ndibe
The silence sucked his speech away.
— Terry Pratchett
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
— Samuel Chadwick
Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.
— Emily Dickinson
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
— Emile M. Cioran
It is easier to benefit from silence than speech.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Speech is the small change of silence.
— George Meredith
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
— Carl Sandburg
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
