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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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