Silent

Famous quotes containing the word silent:

“Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
—John Buchan (1875–1940)

“It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is—cynically and with innocence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)