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| 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: | GEORGE ELIOT, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, chapter 4, p. 51 (1900). First published in 1879. |
| SUBJECTS: | Silence |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot Collection |
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