“The less said the better.”

— Jane Austen

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English novelist 1775–1817

Roger Lewis (1960) Welsh academic and biographer

Of rival candidate for the Oxford Chair of Poetry Michael Horovitz.
Evening Standard, Mon 31 Oct 2011, p16

“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 book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The less said about my extended family back in ranch country the better, as I don't want the ATF burning them alive.”

Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist

True/Slant, "Sarah Palin as Margaret Thatcher, Except No" http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/07/14/sarah-palin-as-margaret-thatcher-except-no/, 10 July 2010.

“The less you think, the better it is.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“The less Islam, the better. It is as simple as that.”

Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician

Speech at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna (27 March 2015) http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/03/geert-wilders-in-vienna-part-2/
2010s

“The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Politics
Context: The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

“The less I needed, the better I felt.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Variant: No, the less I see them the better i like them.
Source: Women

“Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, “Lay it not too much to heart.” Let them adopt the maxim, “Better luck next time”; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)

“The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The less I know, the better I feel about a person or book.”

Larry King (1933) American television and radio host

On why he did not read a book before interviewing its author.
The Radio 'King': From Midnight to Dawn https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19810104&id=7DBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,4986335, Toledo Blade, Jan. 4, 1981.

“The less said the better.”

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