
“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 2 http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=17248; a poem about the Battle of Copenhagen
“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
“Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.”
“Not deep his sorrow who in silence grieves.”
Poco ha doglia chi dolendo tace.
Sonetti e Canzoni, Book II, as reported in T. B. Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 395
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”
Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio è figlia.
La Congiura de' Pazzi, I, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 707.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.