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  • The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

    Wedding   Thinking   Men  
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

    Strong   Men   World  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

    Men   Years   Silent Man  
    Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.115, OUP Oxford
  • A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

    Wise   Men   Honor  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403
  • Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

    The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)
  • Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

    Life   Song   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press
  • Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

  • Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  • There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

    Writing   Men   Vision  
  • We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  • Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

  • Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

    Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum
  • The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

    Men   Silence   World  
    Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com
  • A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

    Strong   Men   Thinking  
  • The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

    Strong   Men   Two  
  • Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

    Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press
  • I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

    Men   Speech   Silent Man  
    Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.315, Harvard University Press
  • Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

    Men   Criticism   World  
    Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, Peter Gay (2000). “Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture”, p.256, Stanford University Press
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