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Is there a bound for Lipschitz constant in terms of second differences?

It is easy to show that if $f\colon[0,1]\to\mathbb R$ and $|f|\leq A$ and $|f''|\leq B$ then~$|f'|\leq 4A+B$. Indeed, by Taylor formula with remainder $f(x)=f(c)+(x-c)f'(c)+\frac12(x-c)^2f''(d)$ where ...