“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”
Sappho
“He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak”
Publilius Syrus
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Winston Churchill
“Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.”
William Blake
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.”
Charles Dickens
“We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.”
Voltaire
