A Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Eloquence Hath More Silence Speech Than Well

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
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July 17, 1810 - 1889

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Francis Bacon

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

William Shakespeare

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Mahatma Gandhi

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Mark Helprin

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

George Herbert

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Anna Kamienska

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Martial

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Simone de Beauvoir

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Richard Whately

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