“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
Kirilov, Part III, Ch. VI, "A busy night"
The Possessed (1872)
“For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
The Canonization, stanza 1
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English poet 1572–1631Related quotes
“If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. XIV
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile —her look —her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 914
Sentences
“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert to Eliza
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 124
