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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Shallow brookes murmur moste, deepe silent slide away. Sib Philip Sidney—The Arcadia. Thirsts andDorus. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lyly) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = Macaulay is like a book in breeches * * * He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 363. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Le silence du peuple est la lecon des rois. The silence of the people is a lesson for kings. Soanen, Bishop of Senax; also Abbe de Beauvais—Funeral oration over Louis XV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. Sophocles—Ajax. 293. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. Sophocles—Antigone. 1251. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. Eabl of Stirling—Aurora. (1604) Song. But let me silent be : For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. R. H. Stoddard—Speech of Love. St. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 710 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. W. W. Story—The Unexpressed. Silence, beautiful voice. | author = Tennyson | work = Maud. Pt. V. St. 3. And / too talk, and lose the touch I talk of. Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is kindly silence when they brawl. | author = Tennyson | work = The After Thought. In Punch, March 7, 1816. (Altered in the published Eoems to: "Is perfect stillness when they rawl. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 710 }}