Top 30 Unwritten Quotes

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

There’s an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn’t 100 percent perfect, or you’re labeled anti-Semitic.

There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.

I couldn’t join my husband’s business as, according to my father-in-law’s unwritten convention, women of the house aren’t allowed to meddle in the family business.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven’t made is to talk about the unwritten book.

That’s the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That’s it. Every MC knows that. If I’m on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That’s just how it is in hip-hop.

There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

For those of us in the political business, generally, it’s been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don’t attack someone’s family.

‘What is your desired salary?’ The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents – judges’ decisions – rather than statutes, baseball’s codes are the game’s distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn’t ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

When they were making black films in the ’60s and the ’70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.

I’m so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn’t happen very often. I don’t have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

I can’t constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else’s idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with a man in terms of starting a conversation. While a man traditionally is always expected to make the first move, he risks rejection in a real way.

It’s an unwritten rule – girl friends’ boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms – the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.

It’s an unwritten rule that you respect people who’ve given you breaks. You see somebody’s body of work before you take a tone with them. I will talk differently to someone with 18 years of experience and someone with 18 months.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn’t understand.

It’s an unwritten rule that when you move to California and you’re an English person, you have to drive a convertible, and you have to bank with Wells Fargo because they have a stage coach on their bank card.