Firsts Quote by William Congreve Download Open image “I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.” — William Congreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firsts Ifs Knowledge Learning Opinion Speak
That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Always think before you speak because you never know who may be listening! — Mschurchgirl Copy Share Image
I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The first rule for speaking well is to think well. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo” — william congreve Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image