Elephant in the room Quote by Bassem Youssef

“The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.”

— Michael Robotham

“The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there”

— Aminatta Forna

“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”

— Morgan Matson

“Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“As the elephant in the room went unacknowledged, it started acting up, trampling over my relationships.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Even when the elephant leaves the room, there is a massive amount of dung.”

— Wyatt Pringle Jr

“I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture! ”

— Stephen King

“In between them stood an elephant and she felt she ought to point it out.”

— Paula Hawkins

“What if you like the elephant were gone to the place you were meant, after all, to be?”

— Kate DiCamillo

“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.”

— Herman Melville

“And so we nearly ran into an elephant; eh?”

— Laura Lee Hope