Mecys Laurinkus Quotes

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

Even silence speaks.

I say what is required to be said.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.