(184 quotes found)
“If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.”
Jaroslav Seifert
“There is a silent enemy lurking there.”
Robert Peter Gale
“She half consents who silently denies”
Ovid
“The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.”
Carl Sandburg
“My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.”
Winston Churchill
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“To be silent is to acknowledge, to positively reinforce.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A fair exterior is a silent recommendation”
Publilius Syrus
“A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.”
Wilfred Owen
“Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficu”
Lord Byron
