Unsaid Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

  Mitch Albom

  Fearless, Unspoken Words, Haunting

  Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013

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• Some things need to be left unsaid.

  Simone Elkeles

  Needs, Left

  Simone Elkeles (2014). “Better Than Perfect: A Wild Cards Novel”, p.124, A&C Black

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• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Deep Thought, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

  Joshua Harris

  True Love, Kissing, Love Is

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.20, Multnomah

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• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Witty

  "Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

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• The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.

  Taylor Swift

  Regret, Left

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• 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

  Answers, Helpful, Kind

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• 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

  Pain, World, Harm

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• 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

  Letting Go, Angel, Doors

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• I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Speakers, Knows

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• Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

  Leo Tolstoy

  Unhappiness, Left

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• Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stuff, Genuine, Left

  "Unsealed Letters Offer Glimpse of Salinger" by Alison Leigh Cowan, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2010.

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• We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

  Neil Gaiman

  Regret, Together, Gone

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought

  Steve Sailer

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• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Together

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• There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Important Words, Time To Leave

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• Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

  Homer

  Communication, Wind, Literature

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• And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

  Malorie Blackman

  Noughts And Crosses, Forgotten

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• The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discourse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

  Louise Glück

  Vocabulary, Silence, Wish

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• In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

  Lincoln Chafee

  World, Diplomacy, Left

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• 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

  Weight, Stones, Pool

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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