“Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.”

“My songs, they say, are poisoned.
How else, love, could it be?
Thou hast, with deadly magic,
Poured poison into me.”

“Every government, our own included, fights with propaganda as deadly as poison gas.”

“Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”

“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”

“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”