Brad Meltzer Quotes

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

I guess karma comes back around 'cause now I'm the one that's hurting

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.