Top 52 Silence Golden Quotes
#1. Mute in that golden silence hung with green,
Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes
Remembrance of all beauty that has been,
And stillness from the pools of Paradise.
Siegfried Sassoon
#2. Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#3. Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Edmund Burke
#4. I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
Nas
#5. She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.
Philip Pullman
#6. When he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens
#7. In the radiance and the silence, she ran on the vast expanse of hard, smooth sand, beside herself with joy. Ah, when you only have a holiday once in a while, what a happiness it is! Each golden minute had to be held and perfected before it was let go.
Dorothy Whipple
#8. Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
Bob Monkhouse
#9. Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young
#10. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.
James Salter
#11. Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly
when it's not called for
Meryl Runion
#12. I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.
Lauren Oliver
#13. Cause silence isn't golden
When I'm holding it inside
Axl Rose
#15. Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
Amit Abraham
#16. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
#17. Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
Margaret Heffernan
#18. real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.
Franny Armstrong
#20. Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
#24. It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark
#25. Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#26. In moments of high emotion, whether they're triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment, if the next thing you are going to say makes you feel better, than it's probably the wrong thing to say.
Amor Towles
#27. Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
Lewis Carroll
#28. Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
T.D. Jakes
#30. I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.
Zell Miller
#31. If "silence is golden" then we have a 24 carat prime minister ... !!!
Himmilicious
#33. Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.
Angela Long
#34. Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush
Gayle Forman
#35. There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.
Anthony Liccione
#36. Silence may be golden but when you whisper with desire in my ear.....the world goes mute~
Ladyaslan
#39. I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#40. Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Josh Billings
#41. Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.
Meg Cabot
#43. Silence is golden, but sometimes invisibility is golder.
Hazel Felleman
#44. The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.
Aysha Taryam
#45. Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.
Karen Marie Moning
#46. The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.
Amit Ray
#47. Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.
William Braithwaite
#48. Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!
Blake Lewis
#50. There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
Gregory Bateson
#51. He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#52. Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.
Joseph Fink