Quotes About Remaining Silent

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer

“I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
― Mark Twain

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
― Lou Holtz

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
― Orson Scott Card

“You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill.”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”
― Richard Yates, A Good School

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out..”
― Winston Churchill

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�”
― Dale Carnegie

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”
― Elizabeth Kostova

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
― Abraham Lincoln