We're getting close to the end, please keep it up a little bit longer. Tom Blair More Quotes by Tom Blair More Quotes From Tom Blair Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. Tom Blair