Strategic Silence Quotes

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

I don't think Batman should spend a whole movie yapping, you know? He should choose his words carefully and speak low.

Silence is safer than speech.

I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

In politics, you're safest when you're saying as little as possible. You're safest when you've got your talking points and you stick to them like glue, even if it means repeating yourself over and over.

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

It is much better that the House wonder why you do not speak than why you do.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.