Considerate Speech Quotes

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

For the Vice President’s benefit, I’ll make sure I use small words.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Think before thou speakest.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.