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Unsaid Quotes

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

"Disruption, Hesitation, Silence". Article by Louise Glück, The American Poetry Review, Volume 22, No. 5, pp. 30-32, www.jstor.org. September-October 1993.

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

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

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

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 (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.294

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 (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.289, Macmillan

Some things need to be left unsaid.

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

The unsaid part is the best of every 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