Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

I have to chose my words carefully.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

I say what is required to be said.

I'm not very good with words, weirdly.

I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It's funny: I'll get comments like, 'Oh I love you. You don't care; you have no filter.' On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.

I don't speak a lot of English, of course, but I do try to express myself, and usually, I can get across to people what I am trying to say.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

What I've been saying to people is that I write it.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.