Mute Quotes

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

Beauty is a mute deception.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Discipline must come through liberty.

I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

O have a care of natures that are mute!

the mute protest in your own bones

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.