A Quote by Charlton Heston

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Charlton Heston

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Eloquent Most Silent Sometimes

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Charlton Heston
American - Actor
October 4, 1923 - April 5, 2008

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Sri Chinmoy

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

William Robert Woodman

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

Anthony Trollope

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

George Henry Lewes

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.

Simon Norfolk

Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

Peter Behrens

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

Washington Irving

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Criss Jami

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Samuel Smiles

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.