I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford and you cannot be any more accurate than that so that helped a lot.

I was silent as a child and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth now but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.