Silent Man Quotes

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Men, Honor

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Military, Character

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Men, World

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com

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• I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Speech, Pounds

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Mother, Taken

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press

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• Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

  Thomas Hardy

  Women, Believe, Listening

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  Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Song, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Men, Vision

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• We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  Jane Powell

  Being Strong, Men, Ideas

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• Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

  Marcel Achard

  Inspirational, Funny, Wedding

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• Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

  Peter Gay

  Men, Criticism, World

  Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, Peter Gay (2000). “Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture”, p.256, Stanford University Press

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• LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Years, Conversation

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.115, OUP Oxford

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• The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

  Marcel Achard

  Wedding, Thinking, Men

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

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