“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.”

“It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”

“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.”

“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.”

“Autumn nights, it seems,
are long by repute alone:
scarcely had we met
when morning's first light appeared,
leaving everything unsaid.”