Silent Man Quotes:

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

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

topic: Men, Speech, Silent Man

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

source: 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

topic: Men, Years, Silent Man

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Metaphors Of Life, Mink

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

- Confucius

topic: True Friend, Yoga, Silence, True Friend Is, Ancient Wisdom

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

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

topic: Wise, Men, Honor, Silent Man

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

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Strong, Men, Thinking, Silent Man

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

topic: Being Strong, Military, Character, Remaining Silent, Silent Man

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

- P. G. Wodehouse

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

topic: Strong, Men, World, Psmith, Silent Man

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

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

topic: Men, Silence, World, Great Empires, Silent Man

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

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Education, Wisdom, Effective Communication, Remaining Silent

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

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Taken, Lakota, Silent Man

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

- Thomas Hardy

topic: Women, Believe, Listening, Silent Man

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

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Fictional character: Don Birnam". "The Lost Weekend", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1945.

topic: Life, Song, Men, Quiet Desperation, Quiet Life

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

topic: Writing, Men, Vision, Blind Man, Silent Man

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

topic: Being Strong, Men, Ideas, Silent Man

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

- Marcel Achard

topic: Inspirational, Men, Thinking, Silent Man

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

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

topic: Men, Criticism, World, Disenchanted, Silent Man

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

- Marcel Achard

topic: Wedding, Thinking, Men, Wedding Cake, Silent Man

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

topic: Strong, Men, Self, Secretive, Forthcoming