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William Shakespeare on Silence

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“The rest is silence.”
William Shakespeare
“I'll speak to thee in silence.”
William Shakespeare
“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
William Shakespeare
“Be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”
William Shakespeare
“The saying is true "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."”
William Shakespeare
“There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.”
William Shakespeare
“Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.”
William Shakespeare
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.”
William Shakespeare
“What; gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak; For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.”
William Shakespeare

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