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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Sep 29, 2025
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.
A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.
There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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