“Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.”
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
Rules of the Road.
“Strangewood was never silent. It was never supposed to be. There was such life and color in the wood and in the creatures who lived there that silence would be tantamount to death. It was very silent in Strangewood.”
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Strangewood (1999)
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Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages )) <br class="br">Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229. <br class="br">A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words" <br class="br">However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' " <br class="br">Attributed
Basil Bunting (1900–1985) Poet
from "Villon" (1930)
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“In an endless silence even screams sound silent.”
Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator
“Scream,” p. 34
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Forest of the Universe”
