Source: Godric (1980)
“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
Attributed
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
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.”
From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 8.
The 44 Scotland Street series
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 63
Context: Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.
“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”
Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
