(1519 quotes found)
“Think much, speak little, and write less”
French Proverb
“We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.”
Voltaire
“Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.”
William Shakespeare
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“You Can Shut Me Out...But You Can Not Shut Me Up! I Broke My Silence!”
Patty Rase Hopson
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
Lao Tzu
“Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.”
Turkish Proverb
“He that speaks much, is much mistaken”
Benjamin Franklin
