Strong But Silent Quotes

#1. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

Sara Teasdale

#2. To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.

Erik Larson

#3. Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Screw the Silent Brothers."
"No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky."
"Isabelle!

Cassandra Clare

#5. A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Croft M. Pentz

#6. Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

Monty Roberts

#7. He was silent, and she finally gave him her full attention. "You're creepy, you know?"
A small grin plucked at one corner of his mouth. "I thought you liked strong silent types these days."
"There's silent, and then there's you.

Lauren Gilley

#8. I feel. I feel. Strong and untouchable and capable. An exquisite glow of joy fills me up and extinguishes my anger. For this instant, I am whole again. I am not broken or empty. The shadow-self inside me that compels me to kill is silent. I am unburdened. I am complete.

Elizabeth May

#9. For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this chiliastic tommyrot before, from a variety of faith-based ethnic cleansers forever seeking to transmute the rest of us to death.

John Leonard

#10. Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy ...

William Blake

#13. Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

Fran Lebowitz

#14. A strong man does not need a silent wife.

Kate Elliott

#15. Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill

#16. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

Peter Hoeg

#17. Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

George Weinberg

#18. If you elect to join the herd you are immune. To be accepted and appreciated you must nullify yourself, make yourself indistinguishable from the herd. You may dream, if you dream alike.

Henry Miller

#19. Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

Bernard Malamud

#20. Being silent for long periods of time was a gift of mine. Most may not see it like that, but it actually takes a strong will to cultivate said talent.

Mary E. Twomey

#21. Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

#22. You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

Jason Aaron

#23. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.

Laura Kreitzer

#24. We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Jane Powell

#25. When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Monica Bellucci

#26. You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney