Think Before You Speak Quotes - Page 2

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Criticism, Literature

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism"

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• Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wise, Godly, Words Of Wisdom

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2016

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• I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wise, Moving, Thinking

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.222, Vintage

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• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Thinking, Feminist

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

  Jimmy Nail

  Thinking, Guy, Firsts

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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