Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
Love
Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.