For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.