"Unsay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you talk such nonsense? The thing is growing beyond a joke. Unsay your words; they are a wrong done ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... said I?—No! That saying I unsay: the wings Hear I not in praevenient winnowings Of coming songs, that lift my hair and stir it? What winds with music wet do the sweet storm foreshow! Utter stagnation Is the solstitial slumber of the spirit, The blear and blank negation of all life: But these sharp ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson
... words replied: "The atheist's lore I use no more, Not mine his impious creed: His words and doctrine I abhor, Assumed at time of need. E'en as I rose to speak with thee, The fit occasion came That bade me use the atheist's plea To turn thee from thine aim. The atheist creed I disavow, Unsay the words of sin, And use the faithful's language now Thy ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... do so, at any rate for the present. You will own that it might be possible that you would have to unsay what ...
— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope
... of the man who at this late day attempts to say anything new about Washington. But perhaps it may be possible to unsay some of the things which have been said, and which, though they were at one time new, have never at any ...
— The Americanism of Washington • Henry Van Dyke
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