Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.


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Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and ...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The best answer to anger is silence.
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Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two works better than those.
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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
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Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
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Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
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Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
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Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours
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Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
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JOHN RIDLEY
I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
BETTY WILLIAMS
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Hang out with wise people and you will realize that there is nothing better for man than silence.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Well I was more upset than embarrassed. I think my first reaction was anger that there are people ar...
RODERICK MCDAVIS
Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER
real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.

He...
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LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to...
ADEOSUN OLAMIDE
innocence is better than argument
PRASANTH SAGAR KOVELAMUDI
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
LORD HALIFAX
Not anger is terrible, but the indifference is the most scary...
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37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, becau...
MITCH HEDBERG
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ANUJ SOMANY
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
IRIS MURDOCH
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, LORD HALIFAX
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEOGRE SAVILLE
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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Anger was better than weeping.
SOPHIE PAGE
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"

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JOAN D. VINGE
A long pause, no answer; leads to silence and a straight answer.
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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works ...
ALAN ALDA
Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
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ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR
The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain wh...
LENA DUNHAM
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
It seems sure to backfire if the intention was to silence their critics.
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I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY
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WILL ADVISE
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
DANIEL WEBSTER
Keep cool; anger is not an argument
DANIEL WEBSTER
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH
Laughter is much better than anger.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN
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C.M. RAYNE
There are no better friends than those forged through honest and often heated argument.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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PATRICK ALLEN
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
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LISA KLEYPAS
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MICKEY SPIEGEL
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH
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SHANNON L. ALDER
If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.
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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
CHE GUEVARA
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
CHE GUEVARA
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
RICHARD FLECKNOE
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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BILL SHANKLEY
Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
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ANGELICA HOPES
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Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.
STEVE MARABOLI
Never respond in anger for that is the feeling you will convey - anger.
JAIME CONTRERAS
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
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DAVID PRATT
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
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Be silent, or say something better than silence
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