Be silent or say something that is better than silence. It is better to be wisely silent than to speak foolishly!

Silence is gold, for which someone else's silence is bought.
Lech Konopinski

Silence is a great friend that will never change.
Confucius

Silence is such an interesting subject that one could talk about it for hours.
Jules Romain

The silence of a man is a sign of refusal, the silence of a woman is a sign of consent.
Louis Massignon

Silence is the altar of caution.
Gracian y Morales

Silence is a special art of conversation.
William Hazlitt

Silence can be the heaviest accusation.
Menander

Silence is a great talent.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Silence is gold, but sometimes it is silver.
Zbigniew Zemetsky

Silence is one of the most difficult arguments to refute.
Henry Wheeler Shaw

Silence is deep as eternity; conversations are shallow, like Time.
Thomas Carlyle

He who does not know how to be silent is not able to speak.
Seneca

Silence - believe in yourself.
Albert Camus

The ability to speak distinguishes people from the animal world; the ability to remain silent distinguishes a person from the world of people.
Grigory Landau

Not at all a sign of soullessness - silence. Thunders only what is empty inside.
William Shakespeare

Listen and be quiet.
Lucian

Learned to speak - it means he grew up. Learned to be silent - so wiser.
Bernard Show

I don't like interlocutors who now and then interrupt my reasoning with their silence.
Leszek Kumor

There is no answer more humiliating than a contemptuous silence.
Michel Montaigne

Silence is a shield from many troubles, and chatter is always harmful. A man's tongue is small, but how many lives he has broken.
Omar Khayyam

Silence is the gloss of fools and the cunning of the sage.
Alexander Pope

He knows how to be silent so interestingly that everyone is waiting for him to finally speak.
Slavian Trotsky

If you knew how rarely we are understood correctly, you would be silent more often.
Johann Goethe

You must be able to remain silent about everything that matters only to you alone.
Philip Chesterfield

Silence is rarely silent.
Howard W. Newton

Sometimes silence is more expressive than any speech.
Montesquieu

Silence is the wisdom of a fool.
Publius

You are better at being silent than you are speaking.
Talmud

Not the beauty of every woman is gold, but intelligence and silence.
Menander

Silent is rarely wrong. Only if he speaks.
Vladislav Gzheshchik

Whoever has nothing to say of his own, it is better for him to remain silent.
Vissarion Belinsky

It is better to remain wisely silent than to speak foolishly.
Publius

Truly he is glorious and great who, in anger, held his tongue.
Rasul Gamzatov

It takes a man two years to learn to speak, and sixty years to learn to keep his mouth shut.
Lion Feuchtwanger

How difficult it is to be silent when you are not asked.
Mikhail Genin

And a fool, when silent, may seem wise.
King Solomon - Proverbs 17, 28

Be quiet. Be silent until you are able to say something that will be more useful than your silence.
Archimedes

Their silence is a loud cry.
Cicero

If you want to be silent about something, be the first to be silent.
Seneca

Silence must be heard in its context.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

First think three times, and then remain silent.
Henri Renier

Silence holds speeches together, and timeliness holds silence together.
Solon

The silence of a man known for his eloquence inspires much more respect than the chatter of an ordinary talker.
Chamfort

The silence of a woman still needs to be earned.
Tamara Kleiman

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

People learn how to speak, and the main science is how and when to be silent.
Lev Tolstoy

The woman silently suffers from the fact that she has no one to talk to.
author unknown

If you are ill-mannered and silent, then you are educated; if you are educated and silent, then you are well-educated.
Theophrastus

The woman is adorned with silence.
Homer

When there is nothing to say, say nothing.
author unknown

He who talks a lot often fails.
Lao Tzu

He who knows how to be silent hears many confessions; for who will reveal himself to a talker and a gossiper.
Francis Bacon

I know enough to remain silent.
Thomas Fuller

Women love silent men. They think they are listening.
Sasha Guitry

We learn to speak from people, to be silent - from the gods.
Plutarch

When the eagles are silent, the parrots chat.
Winston Churchill

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the noblest and most expressive eloquence, and in many cases testifies to high intelligence.
Joseph Addison

Silence is a sign of consent of those who disagree.
Gennady Malkin

Silence is the continuation of the dispute by other means.
Ernesto Che Guevara

A smart wife, while an angry husband screams and scolds, remains silent, and only when he stops talking, starts a conversation with him to soften him and calm him down.
Plutarch

Anyone who does not understand your silence is unlikely to understand your words.
author unknown

He who sows evil reaps repentance. He who remains silent in noisy disputes is wiser than talkers, on the word of the fast.
Saadi

The dust of dead words has stuck to you: wash your soul with silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Whoever does not understand your silence will hardly understand your words.

Teach your children to be silent. They will learn to speak on their own.

Silence sometimes means the most severe criticism.

Silence is deep as eternity; conversations are shallow, like Time.

Without knowing a foreign language, never understand the silence foreigners.

Silence and modesty are qualities very suitable for conversation.

Great souls endure suffering in silence.

Silent is rarely wrong. Only if he speaks.

Be beautiful and sit silently. The first is easier.

Whoever obliges himself to say everything without concealment, he will oblige himself not to do what needs to be silent.

Phrases about silence

Everyone says about a fool and a braggart, that he is a fool and a braggart; but no one tells him this, and he dies, not knowing about himself what everyone knows.

Only the unsaid is worth remembering.

Boundless subtle phrases about silence

The taciturn ones always impress. It is hard to believe that a person has nothing to hide, except his insignificance.

Speech is the destiny of man; silence is the lot of God; but also the beast and death. Therefore, we must comprehend both arts.

Silence: one of the most difficult arguments to refute.

You must be able to remain silent about everything that matters only to you alone.

First think three times, and then remain silent.

He who knows how to be silent hears many confessions; for who will reveal himself to a talker and a gossiper.

People learn how to speak, and the main science is how and when to be silent.

If two people meet and talk, then the purpose of this is not to exchange information or evoke emotions, but to hide behind the words that silence and loneliness in which a person exists.

There are epochs of silence, littered to the ceiling with protocols of conversations.

The trouble is when a person does not have enough intelligence to say well, or common sense to carefully remain silent.

The highest degree of the art of speaking is the ability to remain silent.

Silence is the greatest of human sufferings; the saints were never silent.

Grasping subtle phrases about silence

Silence is the gloss of fools and the cunning of the sage.

Even in his silence, spelling errors could be heard.

Be silent or say something better than silence.

Decency is often a conspiracy of obscenity with silence.

It is better to keep quiet and seem like a fool than to open your mouth and completely dispel doubts.

Seeing injustice and keeping silent means participating in it yourself.

It is most difficult to speak just when you are ashamed to remain silent.

It is better to reveal your mind in silence than in conversation.

It is better to remain silent than to speak evil.

That person is good, with whom you can keep quiet well.

People are willing to be silent if vanity does not induce them to speak.

Silence does not always prove the presence of the mind, but it proves the absence of stupidity.

Silence must be heard in its context.

As long as I remain silent, I do not give consent.

Silence is an unbearable remark.

It is better to remain silent and seem like a fool than to speak up and leave no doubt about it.

There are people who become smarter if they don't say a single word to anyone for eight days in a row.

The most mysterious subtle phrases about silence

How long does it take for a smart person to talk until they believe that he is smart! A stupid man has only to remain silent, and everyone considers him smart.

Silence and valor are inseparable.

Silence - The best way answering pointless questions.

Sometimes silence is more expressive than any speech.

The last word of many writers should have been silence.

Not the beauty of every woman is gold, but intelligence and silence.

A dumbass is a fool who does not open his mouth; in this sense he is preferable to a talkative fool.

It's never too late to shut up if you know you're lying.

There is no answer more humiliating than a contemptuous silence.

With those who are silent, they are silent, with those who tell everything, they are also silent.

Be silent so that you can hear what you are silent about.

I don't like interlocutors who now and then interrupt my reasoning with their silence.

The silence of a man known for his eloquence inspires much more respect than the chatter of an ordinary talker.

Silence is a true friend who will never change.

In general, people who know little talk a lot, and those who know a lot talk little.

Whoever has nothing to say of his own, it is better for him to remain silent.

Women love silent men. They think they are listening.

Silent means consent. Or that no one is listening to you.

Avantage subtle phrases about silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Let them reproach you for your silence - they would not scold you only for your talkativeness.

In love, silence is more precious than words. It is good when embarrassment fetters our tongues: silence has its own eloquence, which reaches the heart better than any words. How much a lover can say to his beloved when he is silent in confusion, and how much intelligence he reveals at the same time.

The cruelest lies are often told silently.

Silence is a special art of conversation.

A man proves his love not by how he talks about it, but by how he is silent about it.

Enough topics for silence.

Silence is the refuge of a simple soul that has experienced the full depth of human sorrow.

Silence - English way talk.

First we learn to walk and talk. Then we learn to sit still and keep quiet.

It's better to say nothing than to say nothing.

He has glimpses of silence that make conversation with him interesting.

People would rather agree to slander themselves than to remain silent about themselves.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the noblest and most expressive eloquence, and in many cases testifies to high intelligence.

Silence is the altar of caution.

There lived a man in the world. He had three dreams: to have a well-paid job, to marry a beauty and ... become famous all over the world.

Once, in a frosty winter, a Man was in a hurry for an interview at the office of a well-known company. Suddenly, an elderly man fell right in front of him. The man looked at the fallen man, the thought arose in his head that he was most likely drunk and did not give his hand. This helped not to be late for the scheduled meeting. The interview was unsuccessful: The person was not hired for the desired position.

Once a Man was walking in the city on a summer evening. Noticing a troupe of street performers, he stopped to enjoy the spectacle. The audience was small, but the play was fun and exciting. After the end of the action, applause broke out, and people began to disperse. Our Man also turned back, but someone timidly touched his shoulder. It was the main character of the play, an old clowness. She began to ask him about whether he liked the performance, whether he was satisfied with the actors. But the Man did not want to carry on a conversation and, turning away in disgust, went home.

One rainy evening The Man was hurrying home from a friend's birthday party. He was very tired, and thoughts of a fragrant bath and a cozy, warm bed rushed through his head. Suddenly, he heard a muffled sob. It was a woman crying. She was sitting on a bench near the Man's house. Without an umbrella. One. Noticing our hero, she turned to him for help. She had a tragedy in her family. And all she needed was a spiritual interlocutor. The man thought, a bath and a bed appeared before his eyes, and hurried to the entrance.

The man lived an unhappy life. And died.

Once in Heaven, Man met his Friend, Guardian Angel. They swung on the heavenly swing and talked.

You know, I lived a very miserable and useless life. I had three dreams, but nothing came true. It's a pity…

Hmm ... My friend, I did everything to make all your dreams come true, but for this I only needed from you: your hand, your eyes and your heart.

My God, so what?

Do you remember the fallen man on the slippery winter road? I'll show you this picture now ... That person was the general director of the company that you so wanted to get into. An exciting career awaits you. All you need is your hand.

Do you remember the old clowness who pestered you with questions after a street performance? It was a young beauty actress who fell in love with you at first sight. A happy future awaited you, children, undying love. All you need is your eyes.

Do you remember the crying woman near your entrance? It was a rainy evening, and she was soaked through with tears ... She was a famous writer. She was going through a family crisis, and she really needed spiritual support. If you had helped her to warm up in her apartment, to warm her Soul thanks to your wise words of consolation, then she would have written a book in which she would have told about this case. The book would become famous all over the world, and you would become famous, because on the main page the author would indicate the name of the one who became the muse of this work. And all that was required of you then was your heart. You were inattentive, my friend.

The man sighed... And they went along the lunar path into the starry distance...

And what does this world offer you now? Remember: Happiness has the face of a Riddle...

If you were silent, there is no need to be afraid of words,
Which you could not say so.
Geoffrey Chaucer

... the Lord punishes him,
Who inappropriately, at the wrong time chatting,
When it would be appropriate for him to be silent ...
Geoffrey Chaucer

Speech is slander. Silence is a lie.
Hong Zicheng

We sin both when we are silent, but we ought to speak, and when we speak, but we ought to be silent.
Saadi

Silence is golden... unless, of course, meanness.
Absalom Underwater

Silence is golden only when there is something to say.
Boris Krutier

Silence is a sign of consent of those who disagree.
Gennady Malkin

Silence is a sign of consent ... lambs.
Evgeny Kashcheev

It is difficult to remain silent, even more difficult to remain silent.
L. Bushma

Compared to words, sighs are hard to contain.
Srba Pavlovic

The person who knows how to keep silent, although he is right, has great power.
Cato the Elder

The one to whom the tongue is obedient usually keeps quiet.
Jerzy Lec

People would rather agree to slander themselves than to remain silent about themselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to speak out is almost always stronger than the desire to learn something.
Dmitry Pisarev

Silence must be heard in its context.
Jerzy Lec

We learn to speak from people, to be silent - from the gods.
Plutarch

Oh, if only you were silent! this would be imputed to you as wisdom.
Job 13:5

You know how not to speak, but you are not able to be silent.
Epicharm

He who cannot speak cannot be silent.
Publilius Sir

Everyone hears your cry; your whisper - only the closest; your silence is only your best friend.
Linda McFarlane

Silence is the adornment of women.
Sophocles

Silence is the best adornment of a woman, alas, almost never used.
Thomas Fuller

Silent women enjoy the reputation of being perfect conversationalists.
Magdalena the Pretender

The principle of "silence is golden" was invented by blackmailers.

Whoever does not understand your silence will hardly understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

In love, we are more concerned about the meaning of silence than the meaning of words.
Mason Cooley

Silence can be the most monstrous.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Shut up like that. to hear what you are silent about.
Dominik Opolsky

It's embarrassing to say, but there's nothing to be silent about.
Gennady Malkin

Silence is a continuation of the dispute by other means.
Attributed to Ernesto Che Guevara

Silence is an unbearable remark.
Gilbert Chesterton

The taciturn ones always impress. Hard to believe. that man has nothing to hide but his own nothingness.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

He has glimpses of silence that make conversation with him interesting.
Sidney Smith

I know enough to remain silent.
Thomas Fuller

Silence is not only the absence of sound, but also the stillness of the mind.
author unknown

Silence is the style of wisdom.
F. Bacon

Silence is a figure of speech that does not require an answer, short, cold, but terribly harsh.
T. Parker

It is better to remain wisely silent than to speak foolishly.
Publilius Sir

Silence is the wisdom of a fool.
Publilius Sir

Silence is the virtue of fools.
F. Bacon

Silence is the only way for an ignoramus to prove at least that he is not a fool.
P. Decursel

G. Shaw

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
W. Gaslitt

Silence is the most perfect expression of contempt.
B. Show

Silence is the most reliable answer to any contradictions dictated by insolence, vulgarity or envy.
I. Zimmerman

Silence is an argument that is almost impossible to refute.
G. Böll

Silence is the only acceptable substitute for brains.
M. Samuel

Silence is an extremely witty response.
G. Chesterton

Silence is more eloquent than words.
T. Carlyle

The woman is adorned with silence.
Homer

Silence holds speeches together, and timeliness holds silence together.
Solon

Be silent or say something better than silence.
Pythagoras of Samos

He who does not know how to be silent is not able to speak.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

The ability to speak distinguishes people from the animal world; the ability to remain silent distinguishes a person from the world of people.
Grigory Landau

Silence is gold, but sometimes it is silver.
Zbigniew Zemetsky

Silence is gold, for which someone else's silence is bought.
Lech Konopinski

Silence is such an interesting subject that one could talk about it for hours.
Jules Romain

Silence is one of the most difficult arguments to refute.
Henry Wheeler Shaw

I don't like interlocutors who now and then interrupt my reasoning with their silence.
Leszek Kumor

Silence is rarely silent.
Howard W. Newton

He knows how to be silent so interestingly that everyone is waiting for him to finally speak.
Slavian Trotsky

You are better at being silent than you are speaking.
Talmud

How difficult it is to be silent when you are not asked.
Mikhail Genin

Silent is rarely wrong. Only if he speaks.
Vladislav Gzheshchik

And a fool, when silent, may seem wise.
King Solomon - Proverbs 17, 28

First think three times, and then remain silent.
Henri Renier