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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. -- Homer
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. -- Winston Churchill
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. -- Walter Winchell
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. -- Bob Dylan
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid. -- Mariah Carey
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Benjamin Franklin
People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid. -- Thom Yorke
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. -- Bernard Meltzer
Some things need to be left unsaid. -- Simone Elkeles
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. -- Henry Van Dyke
There is no time to leave important words unsaid. -- Paulo Coelho
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. -- Winston Churchill
All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid. -- Ralph Caplan
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. -- Langston Hughes
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. -- Harland Miller
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility. -- Harold Pinter
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. -- Lincoln Chafee
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid. -- John Ridley
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. -- Juliette Binoche
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. -- Nadine Gordimer
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid. -- Maximillian Degenerez
The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough. -- Adora Svitak
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.' -- Matthew McConaughey
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. -- Monica Ali
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. -- Denise Mina
The unsaid rules every conversation. -- Marty Rubin
What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought -- Steve Sailer
Some promises are better left unsaid -- Ashlee Simpson
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... -- Louise GluÌ?ck
And things go unsaid soon get forgotten -- Malorie Blackman
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid -- Leo Tolstoy
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid. -- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart -- Jane Austen
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid. -- J. D. Salinger
Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid. -- Ally Carter
Never leave anything unsaid, for you are not sure of tomorrow! -- Preeth Nambiar
Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head. -- Morrissey
Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head. -- Morrissey
The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid. -- Taylor Swift
There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid. -- Lauren Aquilina
It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. -- Frederick Buechner
Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings -- Seema Gupta
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid. -- Cato the Younger
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid. -- Jean Anouilh
I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid... -- Ariana Grande
You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven. -- Dawn Metcalf
What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity. -- Thomas Leonard
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. -- Marcia Muller
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret. -- Khalil Gibran
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. -- Cesare Pavese
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid. -- Brad Meltzer
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. -- Robert Jordan
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid. -- Anna Quindlen
Iâ??ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is whatâ??s unsaid, whatâ??s underneath. Understanding on another level of being. -- Anna Kamienska
This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid -- Nadège Richards
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination. -- Semir Zeki
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid"¦ -- Jonathan Swift
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. -- Arundhati Roy
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence. -- Linda Hogan
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds -- Lawrence Durrell
She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid. -- Edward Rutherfurd
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen. -- Charles Baxter
I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better. -- George Carlin
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against. -- Philippa Gregory
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. -- Diane de Poitiers
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. -- Dave Barry
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me. -- Mark Lawrence
A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way. -- Nate Parker
There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work. -- Garry Winogrand

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