Best Hush Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches

“The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.”

Music Wind Summer Breaths Forests Wander Fancy Branches Sigh Breeze Floats Filters Hush

Author:John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

“Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.”

Fountain Hush Hermits Hush Hush Thrush

Author:John B. Tabb

“How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.”

Stills Song Voice Morning Labour Sabbath Mute Hush D Day Sabbath Day

Book:The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame

Source: The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame

“Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.”

Water Sleep Wind Hush

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

Should Earth Lying Dies Fall Tears Proud Sorrow Fame Mountain Ears Shame Tales Warrior Aliens Dumb Fallen Insult Woe Foe Scorn Solemn Bleeding Hush Heathen Haughty

Author:William Somervile

“Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.”

Way Wells Might Today Fall Heaven Skins Snow Thrown Hush Heathen Chilly Snow Falling

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“Can we hush the fears that so easily and frequently beset us in our contemporary world? The answer to this question is an unequivocal yes. Three basic principles are central to receiving this blessing in our lives: (1) look to Christ, (2) build upon the foundation of Christ, and (3) press forward with faith in Christ.”

World Looks Three Christ Answers Principles Our Lives Blessing Foundation Presses Contemporary Receiving Hush Basic Principles Unequivocal

Author:David A. Bednar

“The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”

Fall Sea Rain Rounds Edges Woods Sunset Farmers Ashes Brushes Leafs Purple Creeps Cautious Ripple Swamps Hush Maple

Book:The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

“Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.”

Tired Heal Hush Come Back To Me

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.”

World Moving Lines White One Day Pages Letters Blue Smell Pale Pencils Hush

Book:Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.”

Heart Sound Black Stones Mirrors Cricket Hush

Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

“But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.”

Wells Strong Waiting Silence Arms Obedience Silence Is Hush Inquisitive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

“Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.”

Ifs Silence Tree Fields Window Toss Hush

Book:A Boy's Will and North of Boston

Source: A Boy's Will and North of Boston

“I take this pain, Lord Jesus, From Thine own hand; The strength to bear it bravely Thou wilt command. I am too weak for effort. So let me rest, In hush of sweet submission On Thine own breast.”

Hands Pain Jesus Effort Lord Sweet Bears Weak Let Me Command Breasts Submission Resignation Hush

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!”

Littles Said Accepting Boys Love You Ought Late And Love Dear Too Late Little Boys Hush Dear Me

Book:Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence

Source: Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence

“The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.”

May Past Fields Sweet Music Is Woods Suits Yearning Leafs New Life Frost Hush Free Love Past Away

Book:Idylls of the King

Source: Idylls of the King

“But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.”

Knows Self Body Eye Running Failing Hair Arms Skins Mirrors Aging Surface Flesh Fats Spots Necks Pens Gray Weary Exhausted Veins Rope Sleeves Wrinkles Liver Hush Notches Freckles Cornered

Author:William H. Gass

“All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!”

Men Heart Eye Night Sound Thousand Beats Fairs Bravery Brave Strikes Rising Bells Lamps Merry Brave Man Belgium Chivalry Heart Beat Hush Her Beauty Voluptuous Revelry

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?”

“I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.”

Knows Years Made Film Parent Behinds Boys Special Effects Majority Critics Eight Apology Bucks Hush Special Effects Popeye

Author:Robert Altman

“Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.”

Force Powerful Path Creation Crisis Noise Spells Decay Doom Hush Ascent Disintegration

Book:Michael: a novel

Source: Michael: a novel

“You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter.' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.”

Want Said Matter Moments Might Voice Singing Angel Demon Hush Rare Moments Angels Singing

Author:Margaret Feinberg

“I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.”

Library Reasonable Percentages Hush

Author:Robin Ince

“If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.”

Ifs Sometimes Moments Doubt Lucky Ears Gods Will Hush

Author:John Graves

“Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."”

Doe Made Said Sometimes Happens Sex Hundred Paid Dollars Checks Unexpected Honey Exquisite Hush

Author:Ronnie Shakes

“My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.”

Knows Married Affair Hush Hush Hush

Author:Bipasha Basu

“Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.”

“In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.”

Ideas Might Found Accepted Radical Exploration Aesthetic Puppy Virginia Seattle Hush Radical Ideas Richmond

Author:Tom Robbins

“Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.”

Mind Long Has Beens Burden Peace Of Mind Long Ago Fulfilled Hush

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.”

“Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.”

Earth Asks Paper Flying Beer Meat Ritual Primitive Plates Insects Puppy Elbows Hush

Author:Trevanian

“Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”

World Has Beens Dream Pay Attention Silence Goes On Eternal Eternity Everlasting Hush

Book:The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51

Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51

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