Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1692 |
| AUTHOR: | George Eliot (1819–80) |
| QUOTATION: | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | |
| SUBJECTS: | Silence |
| NUMBER: | 1692 |
| AUTHOR: | George Eliot (1819–80) |
| QUOTATION: | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | |
| SUBJECTS: | Silence |