Top 100 Say Nothing Quotes
#1. But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
Samuel Beckett
#3. Actually, she is squeezing me, and her armpits smell. I expect more hygiene from sane people, but I say nothing.
Cameron Jace
#4. Once you can hang a price tag on something, you can in principle put a price tag on anything, including conscience and honor, to say nothing of body parts and children.
David Harvey
#5. Next time a sunrise steals
your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way.
Say nothing and listen as Heaven
whispers, Do you like it?
I did it just for you.
Max Lucado
#6. Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?
Tacitus
#7. The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.
Trey Gowdy
#8. After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.
Merrie Spaeth
#10. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
Epictetus
#11. He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob."
I say nothing.
"He's a paragon schnitzophonic."
"He's what?!"
"Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al.
"You mean paranoid schizophrenic?"
"Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter ...
Sara Gruen
#12. Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part.
Charlaine Harris
#13. Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.
Ben Carson
#15. Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie
#16. People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
Katy Perry
#18. When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating, tense, unbearable.
Paulo Coelho
#19. I ran my fingers along his jaw and he stroked my hip. We didn't talk because there were no words to say, nothing to describe the moment where we grew from boys who were best friends to men who were lovers.
Megan Erickson
#20. The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. Max would rather say nothing to everyone than something to one person
Matthew Dicks
#23. Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
Thomas Bernhard
#24. If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all! A quote from Thumper in Bambi.
G.J. Griffiths
#25. It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.
Benjamin Disraeli
#27. If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
Cal Thomas
#28. The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal
Carl Sagan
#29. I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.
S.J. Watson
#30. Aristotle once said, To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.
Dave Ramsey
#31. Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.
Awdhesh Singh
#32. It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.
Emily Bronte
#33. Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.
Yoko Ono
#34. Hough I have to say nothing beats Type O mixed with a little cannabis." A muscle worked in David's jaw. "You're stoned?"
"Not Really," I said. "Though I do have a strange craving for pizza. Extra garlic.
Jaye Wells
#35. As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#36. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
Jojo Moyes
#37. In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.
Fernando Pessoa
#38. Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the other knowing.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#40. When you say three things, you say nothing.
Chip Heath
#41. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
Jeffrey Kluger
#42. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.
Albert Mohler
#43. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].
Pharoah Sanders
#44. Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think
Anand Neelakantan
#45. Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.
Gertrude Stein
#46. When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Paul Brown
#47. To kill deliberately is very wrong," said Chen Gong. "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," was Cao Cao's reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.
Luo Guanzhong
#48. I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.
Fetty Wap
#49. Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...
Alison Lurie
#50. To the ends of the earth, madam, to say nothing of back and forth in this garden.
Caroline Linden
#51. Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?
Joe Cawley
#52. Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
Joy Williams
#53. Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
Joan Of Arc
#54. Whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.
Rod Dreher
#55. I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X
#56. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
Alice Walker
#57. I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.
Christian Finnegan
#58. Haters, like parrots, talk much but cannot fly. Dreamers, like eagles, say nothing but conquer the skies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
Octavio Paz
#60. Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Lewis Carroll
#61. Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.
Valeria Luiselli
#62. Time will say nothing but I told you so ...
W. H. Auden
#63. I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.
Tim Kaine
#64. You know, when people say 'nothing', that always means it's something. If people would just say something other than nothing, people wouldn't be as suspicious.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#65. I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Elia Kazan
#66. It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.
Richard Branson
#67. Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.
Philip Levine
#68. In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
William Hazlitt
#69. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
#70. Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything.
Epictetus
#71. Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
Theodor Mommsen
#72. Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all
Alice Kuipers
#73. When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.
Nora Roberts
#74. This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy.
Elizabeth McCracken
#75. I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.
Jennifer Niven
#76. So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
George Cukor
#77. I never instruct those who aren't full of passion, and I never enlighten those who aren't struggling to explain themselves. If I show you one corner and you can't show me the other three, I'll say nothing more.
Confucius
#78. I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
Henry Rollins
#79. One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.
Charles De Gaulle
#80. I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
James Joyce
#82. Never say anything you'll regret. It's easier to say nothing at all than to say something you can't take back.
Nikki Sex
#83. We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#84. Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
Aesop
#85. Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Joy Bryant
#86. No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.
Virginia Woolf
#87. I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.
Emily Rodda
#88. The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much.
Albert Camus
#89. Me wondering why they don't say nothing about a kiss being salty as a tear.
Lindsay Hunter
#90. If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.
Vincent De Paul
#91. Spirits ... Ghosts ... Angels ... whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.
Lucinda Riley
#92. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#93. To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we'd stop rattling, we'd adjust, we'd settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.
Daniel Handler
#94. In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Ernie Harwell
#95. There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
Chespirito
#96. I lived six months with her. Since that day - God be my witness! - 1 need fear nothing.
Nothing, I say. Nothing, except one thing: that the devil, or God, wipe out those six
months from my memory.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#97. The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence,
Nicholas Eberstadt
#98. Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing
Matthew Dicks
#99. If you don't want to see me again, say so. But it's not right to say nothing. It's not right to go silent. You know what to do.
Emily Winslow
#100. They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'
Dorothea Dix
