Silence Is Not Golden Quotes

#1. I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Zell Miller

#2. 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

#3. It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Muriel Spark

#4. Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

#5. 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

#6. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

#7. 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

#8. Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly
when it's not called for

Meryl Runion

#9. Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Brigham Young

#10. Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Bob Monkhouse

#11. 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

#12. I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Nas

#13. Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#14. Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.

Joseph Fink

#15. 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

#16. The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Aysha Taryam

#17. Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

Meg Cabot

#18. 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

#19. 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