Remaining Silent Quotes

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Aesop

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

Anonymous

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S Burroughs

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Honoré de Balzac

It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.

Xainee

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Maurice Switzer

What's the use of complaining about something you have no intentions of changing it?

Mario L Castellanos

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze

Brandon Sanderson

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.