A Quote by Anthony Trollope

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
English - Novelist
April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

Stefanie Schneider

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

Ian Bannen

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Novalis

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Pythagoras

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

William Shakespeare

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Bertrand Russell

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

Margaret George

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Novalis

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.