Things Are Better Left Unsaid Quotes & Sayings

If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid. — Amanda Grange

There are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you. — Inez Haynes Irwin

He had transformed, from "Froschjunge," or "Frog boy," to her very own knight in shining armor. — Melanie Dickerson

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

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. — Lincoln Chafee

Some promises are better left unsaid — Ashlee Simpson

But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less. — A. Lynn

There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced. — Anthony Liccione

I wish I could be attracted to unattractive women. They're just more interesting. — Dov Davidoff

- That may be better left unsaid. No, ignorance is bliss, perhaps, - Utsurigi said without any shyness, - Still, you are quite gloomy. Despite those dead-fish eyes of yours.
- Saying they are like dead fish is a bit much. The Professor said "good eyes".
- Good eyes they are. Truly impressive levels of rotting. — NisiOisiN

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

Some things are better left unsaid. — Jubin Jomon

Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can describe in any page-filling paragraph that can't be captured better in just a sentence or two? Perhaps even nothing in any sentence which cannot better be refined in a single, spot-on word? Does it not follow, then, that there's likely nothing one can say in any word - in saying anything at all - that, ultimately, isn't better left unsaid?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden

I didn't ask. Some things are better left unsaid.
He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him.
Never will.
He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I'd know joy. — Karen Marie Moning

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid. — J.D. Salinger

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

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

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

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. — Richard Paul Evans

Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. — Susan Cain

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy? — Jeaniene Frost

We don't have all the answers ... as we get older, our bodies need repair. — Benny Hinn

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid ... — Ariana Grande

He pulls me into his arms and holds me tight. He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice. Being in his arms feels like the home I never had. He's still panting his laugh that rumbles through his chest. My chest moves with his, making me smile. — Susan Ee

This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression. — Cathy Williams

All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid. — Ralph Caplan

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again. — Karen Kingsbury

There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, or better kept inside. — Diyar Harraz

According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks. — Jimmy Fallon