
“The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
Source: Bloodfever
Source: Styxx
“The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
Source: Bloodfever
Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches (1974), Chelsea House, Volume IV: 1922–1928, p. 3462 ISBN 0835206939
Early career years (1898–1929)
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
L’homme qui nous parle est l’amant, l’homme qui ne nous parle plus est le mari.
Part I, ch. VII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
The Man Died (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) p. 13.
Nach dem Abendbrot sitzen wir an der Kirche in einem stillen Winkel. Wie von ferne hören wir Gebet und Singen. Die Mönche halten ihre Abendandacht. Und dann wird es still, wunderbar still!
Die Sonne ist schon untergegangen. … Auch wir schweigen. … Irgendwo wird eine Tür geschlossen. Eine Männer-, dann eine Frauenstimme. Kinderbeten! Du lieber Jesus mein! Dann wird es wieder still. Wunderbar still!
Die Nacht legt ihre breiten, schwarzen Flügel auf das Land.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Is there no hope? the sick man said;
The silent doctor shook his head.”
Fable, The Sick Man and the Angel
Fables (1727)
“The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favourite.”
Tacitumque a principe vulgus<br/>dissidet, et, qui mos populis, venturus amatur.
Tacitumque a principe vulgus
dissidet, et, qui mos populis, venturus amatur.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 169
“In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,
And thinks the air is fire.”
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)