If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Silence is the perfect herald of joy.

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.