| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Akta dig för folk som inte talar och för hundar som inte skäller. | Jacob Cats |
| Att inget säga... säger ibland mest. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| Bättre vara tyst och bli betraktad som en idiot än att öppna munnen och bevisa det. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| De mest tystlåtna brukar vara de som tänker högst om sig själva. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| De tysta är inte alltid de kloka. Stängda kistor kan vara tomma. | Jean Giono |
| Den eviga tystnaden i det ändlösa rummet gör mig så rädd! | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Det bästa sättet att få tyst på en kvinna är att låta henne tala ut. | Markus M. Ronner |
| Det enda som har makt att överdöva världens larm är tystnad. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Det finns många sätt att gråta: högljutt, tyst eller inte alls. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| En kvinna måste kunna vara tyst. Ett äktenskap utan tystnad är som en bil utan bromsar. | Charles Aznavour (1924-) |
| En kvinnas goda rykte beror på flera mäns tystnad. | Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) |
| En vän är någon man delar sin tystnad med. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Föräldrar tillbringar den första delen av ett barns liv med att lära det tala och gå, och resten av dess barndom med att få det att sitta stilla och hålla tyst. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Han visste exakt i vilket ögonblick han inte skulle säga något. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Hans bidrag till diskussionen var givande. Han teg. | Nicolaus Cybinski |
| Hans bidrag till konversationen var givande. Han teg. | Nicolaus Cybinski |
| Hellre vara tyst och misstänkas för att vara dum än att öppna munnen och undanröja varje tvivel. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Ibland måste man vara tyst för att bli hörd. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Ingen är fullärd förrän han lärt att tiga. | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Inget styrker en auktoritet så som tystnad | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Jag skulle tro att människor, som i så hög grad bearbetar sej själva och andra med ord, är överens om att ta tystnad som ett tecken på visdom. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Konversation: den kvinnliga formen av tystnad. | Roland Alix |
| Kvinnor tycker om tysta män. De tror att de lyssnar. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Man har tagit det första steget till vishet när man har lärt sig hålla tyst. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Man lider med buller och bång, man njuter i tysthet. | Vivian Cox |
| Mannen lider när han talar, kvinnan lider när hon är tyst. | Vivian Cox |
| När en flicka får besök av en ung pojke är det inte oväsendet utan tystnaden som oroar hennes mamma. | Vivian Cox |
| När en ung flicka får besök av en ung man är det inte oväsendet utan tystnaden som bekymrar hennes mamma. | Vivian Cox |
| Om det finns något att skämmas för så är det att säga att man tillhör den tysta majoriteten. Det innebär att man bekymrar sig så föga om förhållandena att man inte ids resa sig upp och säga något. | David Sheppard |
| Om jag kunde skulle jag alltid arbeta i tystnad och obemärkthet och låta mina bemödanden ge sig till känna genom sina resultat. | Emily Bronte (1818-1848) |
| resten är tystnad | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Se hur naturen - träd, blommor och gräs - växer i tystnad; se stjärnorna, månen och solen, hur de rör sig i tystnad...vi behöver tysnad för att få möjlighet att röra själar. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Tystnad - det fulländade uttrycket för förakt. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Tystnad mellan vänner är verklig kommunikation. Det som räknas är inte det som sägs utan det som inte behöver sägas. | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är bättre än ord utan mening. | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är den sanna vän som aldrig sviker. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är den sanna vännen som aldrig förråder. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är en källa till stor styrka. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är ett av de svåraste argumenten att gendriva. | John Billings |
| Tystnad är ett stängsel som innesluter visdom. Endast tystnad är inte visdom. | African-American Proverb |
| Tystnad är guld. | African-American Proverb |
| Tystnad är inte alltid takt, och det är takt som är guld, inte tystnad. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Tystnad är också ett tal. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnad är sann visdoms bästa svar. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Tystnaden har blivit hans modersmål. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Tystnaden kan ofta säga mer än långa tal. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Tystnaden kommer med en knytnäve. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Tystnaden är hans modersmål. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Tystnaden är svår att argumentera emot | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Under tystnad är det mycket som säger sig självt. | Evripides (484 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Var tyst - eller säg något som är värt mer än tystnad | Evripides (484 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Var tyst, såvida du inte kan förbättra tystnaden. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Du har taget det første skridt på vejen mod visdom, når du har lært at holde din kæft. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Lying is done with words and also with silence. | Adrienne Rich (1929-) |
| One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence | Andre Kostelanetz (1901-) |
| Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise | Bernard de Bonnard |
| Silence is sometimes the severest criticism | Charles Buxton |
| A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts | Diodicus |
| Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. | Edward Hoagland |
| I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. | Elie Wiesel (1928-) |
| Silence is argument carried out by other means. | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara |
| Silence is sometimes the answer | Estonian Proverb |
| Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily | Gwendolyn Bennett |
| There are times when silence has the loudest voice | Leroy Brownlow |
| It's good to shut up sometimes. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. | Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| Nothing is more useful than silence. | Menander of Athens |
| Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking | Moorish Proverb |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| A moment of silence is not inherently religious. | Sandra Day O'Conner |
| Now all my teachers are dead except silence. | W. S. Merwin |
| And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know | William Rose Benet |
| Silence is the wit of fools. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two | Hebrew Proverb |
| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words | John Wycliffe |
| To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant | Muslih-uddin Sadi |
| When money speaks, the truth is silent | Russian Proverb |
| Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. | Marcel Marceau (1923-) |
| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. | Gloria Naylor (1950-) |
| Silence is the best answer to the stupid | Proverb |
| Do not speak unless you can improve the silence | Proverb |
| In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. | Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Lying is done with words and also with silence. | Adrienne Rich (1929-) |
| Saying nothing...sometimes says the most. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| The best answer to answer to anger is silence. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Silence is a fence around wisdom | German Proverb |
| Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| 'Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Only silence is great; all else is weakness. | Alfred Victor Vigny (1797-1863) |
| Silence is golden; speech is silver | American Proverb |
| How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence? | Anne Austin |
| Silence is medication for sorrow | Arab Proverb |
| Calumnies are answered best with silence | Ben Jonson (1572-1637) |
| Silence is the door of consent. | Berber proverb |
| Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue | Bible |
| Silence is sometimes the severest criticism | Charles Buxton |
| Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| When you have nothing to say, say nothing. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Speech is oft repented, silence never | Danish Proverb |
| A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| Silence is the virtue of fools. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words | Greek proverb |
| Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| A silent mouth is sweet to hear | Irish Sayings |
| Silence was never written down | Italian Proverb |
| Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. | Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-) |
| Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| To silence another, first be silent yourself | Latin Proverb |
| Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Silence is become his mother tongue. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Listen to the sound of silence | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence | Proverb |
| Silence is also speech | Proverb |
| We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence | Proverb |
| The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Silence gives the proper grace to women | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in | Spike Milligan (1918-2002) |
| Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession | The Talmud |
| Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Silence is more eloquent than words | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Å kunne konversere på mange språk er verdifullt, men å kunne holde munn på ett er uvurderlig. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Det er bedre å være taus - og bli ansett for å være en dumrian, enn å snakke - og bevise at man er det. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Det er bedre å være taus å bli ansett for å være en dumrian, enn å snakke å bevise at man er det. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Det tar to år for å lære å tale, men 50 år å lære å tie. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Endog for den som sitter i min stol, er det viktigere å kunne holde seg stille en å kunne tale. | Pave Johannes XXIII |
| Man lærer best taushet blant snakkesalige mennesker, og snakkesalighet blant tause. | Jean Paul (1763-1825) |
| Menn med megen erfaring har betrodd oss at de ofte har angret på at de har talt, men aldri på at de har tidd. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Salige er de som ikke har noe å si og heller ikke gjør det. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Taushet er en utålelig replikk! | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |