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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”
Benedict of Nursia book Rule of Saint Benedict
Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist
Attributed
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer
From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor
Source: Hawthorn and Lavender (1901), XXI
Context: Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
So man and woman will keep their trust,
Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
And they that go with the Word unsaid,
Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
Stacy McGaugh (1964) American astronomer
[Stacy McGaugh, http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/inthon.html, "Intellectual Honesty, The Mond Pages"] at astroweb.case.edu. Accessed 2014.