“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Clara:
I will speak softly, till our gathered strength
Finds in its union voice. Ah, no delay!
The tyranny that dared to fetter wears
A midnight dagger.”
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“When I am old I shall wear midnight.”
Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
Dion Boucicault (1820–1890) Irish actor and dramatist
The Wearing of the Green, in Arragh na Pogue, or the Wicklow Wedding (1864)
“Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet
The last line of each stanza
This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land
Prothalamion (1596)
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) Irish politician
The Observer, October 10, 1982
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) Irish poet and critic
Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
Context: Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not mean, and of acting without hesitation up to whatever we say. A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb: "Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far." If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
