Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 186 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Based on a lecture delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, December 4, 1864. |
| SUBJECTS: | Character |