“Simplicity,” p. 131
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Sound of the Silence”
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Truth of Intercourse.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Vol. I, Letter 1
Letters That Have Helped Me (1891)
“The pure religious consciousness lies in a region which is forever beyond all proof or disproof.”
p. 136
“We dare not even by silence sanction lies.”
" The Third of February, 1852 http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tfe.htm", st. 2 (1852)
Context: We love not this French God, the child of hell,
Wild War, who breaks the converse of the wise;
But though we love kind Peace so well,
We dare not even by silence sanction lies.
It might be safe our censures to withdraw,
And yet, my Lords, not well; there is a higher law.
Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 23 (p. 272)
