Top 100 Keep Silent Sayings

#1. The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

Caitlin Moran

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#2. Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

David Toop

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#3. Men shouldn't fear or hate what they do not know but study it and share it instead. It is both an act of selfishness and cruelty to seek for the destruction of wisdom and the wise, but also to keep silent when witnessing it happening.

Daniel Marques

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#4. As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Albert Camus

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#5. Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

Ursula Parrott

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#6. We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Pierre Nicole

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#7. I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Azar Nafisi

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#8. Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?

Michel Faber

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#9. He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

Elijah Muhammad

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

Elias Canetti

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#11. One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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#12. 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

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#13. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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#14. The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Neil Gaiman

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#15. She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain.

Erika Johansen

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#16. Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?

Donna Lynn Hope

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#17. 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

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#18. Ye'll learn more of a man if ye look at his face when he's looking at somebody else, than ye'll learn any other way, but,' he advised her, 'ye have to keep silent to do it

Susanna Kearsley

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#19. How can I keep silent? How can I stay quiet?
My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay,
my friend Enkidu, whom I loved has turned to clay.
Shall I not be like him, and also lie down,
never to rise again, through all eternity?

Anonymous

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#20. If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him.

Leo Tolstoy

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#21. 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

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#22. I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself.

Rumi

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#23. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#24. Mild speech is the best form of showing the Calmness of ones soul, Rough talk forms all types of unease for all man - you won't be able to talk to God Roughly though - so keep silent.

A Gentlemen

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#25. The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny

Wole Soyinka

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#26. I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

Theodore Bikel

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#27. Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

Saint Augustine

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#28. Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

Confucius

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#29. He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.

Martin Heidegger

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#30. Mines are like us in a way: If the ruler keeps his boots very tight on our heads we will keep silent but if he becomes a little lenient we would repel. We would explode.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

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

Confucius

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#32. As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Erica Jong

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#33. To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#34. About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

Teresa Of Avila

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#35. The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Murray Rothbard

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#36. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.

Anonymous

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#37. 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

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#38. It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

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#39. See and keep silent.

Francis Walsingham

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#40. Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Sophocles

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#41. No" in the room might signal to everyone that they should keep silent.

Sam Killermann

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#42. Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Rumi

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#43. By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

Octavio Paz

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#44. Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Hugh Allen

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#45. 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

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#46. The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Richard Llewellyn

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#47. The man dies in all those that keep silent.

Wole Soyinka

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#48. Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Pope John XXIII

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#49. It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#50. But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

Rene Barjavel

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#51. If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.

Dave Davidson

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#52. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Muriel Spark

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#53. Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear.

Rumi

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#54. Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

Ayn Rand

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#55. Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,If they keep silent before the learned.

Thiruvalluvar

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#56. The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes.

Juliet Marillier

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#57. What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Muriel Rukeyser

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#58. In 1905, Freud wrote: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him from every pore.

Pamela Meyer

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#59. I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

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#60. What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

James Levine

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#61. It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Tom Smothers

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#62. Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Janet Malcolm

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#63. We'll build a fortress to keep them out
And in a world gone silent, I'll be your sound
And if they try to hurt you, I'll tear them down
I'm always with you know

Emma Hewitt

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#64. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Paul Ryan

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#65. Every man has at least one nightmare he'd like to keep to himself.

Amber Silvia

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#66. Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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#67. I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

John Updike

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#68. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

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#69. When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Amit Kalantri

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#70. She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None

Pauline Reage

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#71. You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#72. The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

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#73. I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

Katherine McIntyre

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#74. However, he either could growl without meaning, like a monster, or stay silent and keep his ideas to himself.

J.M.K. Walkow

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#75. Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.

Mark Lynas

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#76. Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret.

Charles D'Ambrosio

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#77. No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.

Lisa Kleypas

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#78. When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

Robin Leach

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#79. I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily Carr

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#80. I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Russell Banks

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#81. IN SHAME AND SORROW CHRISTIANS KEEP IN MEMORY THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF THIS CITY. IN 1933, 4675 JEWS LIVED IN DRESDEN. IN 1945 IT WAS 70. WE WERE SILENT AS THEIR HOUSES OF WORSHIP BLAZED . . . WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THEM AS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.

Lauren Belfer

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#82. Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs.

Yehuda L. Bialer

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#83. When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#84. Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

Martin Luther

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#85. But then some people give off a strange sense of preoccupation, as if there is something in their lives so important to them that they have to keep it silent, and close. And to keep this thing close, they make sacrifices.

Helen Oyeyemi

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#86. Smartass Disciple : Master, why you keep telling about the truth? Nobody hears.
Master of Stupidity : O Yea. They hear but don't listen. Anyway, no fun in silent.

Toba Beta

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#87. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

Saint Augustine

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#88. Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.

Mikhail Bulgakov

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#89. Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#90. Helen spent three days in Rhys Winterbournes's room babbling incessantly while he lay there feverish and mostly silent. She became heartily tired of the sound of her own voice, and said something to that effect near the end of the second day.
"I'm not," he said shortly. "Keep talking.

Lisa Kleypas

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#91. Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

Berenice Bejo

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#92. Chase pointed at the tellers behind the glass. "First, you keep your hands in plain view. If you hit any alarm button, silent or otherwise, everyone out here is dead.

Grand Central Publishing

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#93. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Sigmund Freud

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#94. I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

Carly Pope

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#95. To be silent, to keep myself absolutely hidden, nothing else.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#96. If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

Gautama Buddha

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#97. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.

Pope Francis

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#98. My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

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#99. The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat.

Soseki Natsume

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#100. Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

Rajneesh

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