Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.Your still fowl, blinking at youwithout remark, mayall thewhilebesittingonone addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Felix Holt, ch.15.

Which I wish to remarkö And my language is plainö That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.

-Harte, (Francis) Bret
  'Plain Language from Truthful James', stanza1. The poem became popularly known as'That Heathen Chinee'.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Blanche. A Streetcar Named Desire, sc.3