(98 quotes found)
“What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!”
William Wordsworth
“I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone”
Conor Oberst
“[Speak softly]Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.”
Leonard Nimoy
“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility”
Charles Lamb
“Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”
Earl Long
“A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.”
Marcel Pagnol
“As the cortege wound slowly along, the queen whispered in a broken voice, "Here he is," and I knew that her dry eyes were seeing beyond the coffin a little boy in a sailor suit.”
Lady Mabell Airlie
“Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.”
Wilfred Owen
“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”
Mary Stewart
