Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Speech is the small change of silence.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I don't talk a lot.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

The inarticulate speak longest.

As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.

My dad's a man of few words.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

I am someone who doesn't talk more than what is required, but I am also a fun person.