A Quote by Ralph Caplan

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

Ralph Caplan

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Ralph Caplan
American - Writer
Born: 1925

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

Lincoln Chafee

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

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

Ariana Grande

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.

Sam Hamill

Some promises are better left unsaid

Ashlee Simpson

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

J. D. Salinger

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

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 need to be left unsaid.

Simone Elkeles

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

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Leo Tolstoy

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.