A Quote by Pat Conroy

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Pat Conroy

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Pat Conroy
American - Writer
October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Mark Twain

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Ellin Devis

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Herman Melville

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Thomas Carlyle

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Susan Sontag

The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

David Whyte

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Oscar Wilde

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley

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

Sri Chinmoy

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Walter Murch

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