Quotes
Quotes about Whisper
Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.
And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream; He put the o'erhanging grasses by, And softly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet unreluctant stream.
As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
