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Keep Silent Quotes

Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent.
- Paulo Coelho

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
- Jean De La Bruyere

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
- Elias Canetti

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
- Confucius

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
- Muriel Spark

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
- Neil Gaiman

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
- L P Hartley

Speak openly. There is no one I trust more than Lutian. (Adara)
He's a half-wit, my queen. (Xerus)
Half-wit, whole-wit, I have enough of them to know to keep silent. So speak, good counselor, and let the queen judge which of the two of us is the greater fool present. (Lutian)
- Kinley Macgregor

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you.
- Azar Nafisi

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
- Pierre Nicole

keep silent..
the most beautiful voice ,
is the talk of your hand
on the table.
..
- Nizar Qabbani

Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
- Rumi

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
- Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all those that keep silent.
- Wole Soyinka

See and keep silent.
- Francis Walsingham

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