Speech Consequences Quotes

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

Silence is safer than speech.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Words are loaded pistols.