Careful Words Quotes

I don't think Batman should spend a whole movie yapping, you know? He should choose his words carefully and speak low.

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

I'm generally soft spoken, very measured, and I think 500 times before I say something.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

I always try to think before I talk.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Think today and speak tomorrow

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn't have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it's thoughtful. She's very calm. I'm trying to learn that from her.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

Don’t ever talk until you know what you’re talking about…

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.