Beat Around The Bush Quotes

“I said, 'We have dreamed, dear friend. Another time, we might awaken. Let it be a dream forgotten at morning.' That seemed a better way of saying it than, 'Never remind me of this, for fear I should stick a knife in you.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you don’t know the answer to a question, do not beat around the bush,
There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying
“I don’t know”
― Charmaine J. Forde