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When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. - James Martineau Though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112) When Adam first of men, To first of women Eve, thus moving speech, Turn'd him all ear to hear new utterance flow. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 408) When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) To speak prose without knowing it. [Fr., Faire de la prose sans le savoir.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Bourgeois Gentilhomme (II, 6) Then we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. [Fr., Quand on se fair entendre, on parle toujours bien, Et tous vos beaux dictons ne servent de rien.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Les Femmes Savantes (II, 6) I shall make you an impromptu at my leisure. [Fr., Je vous ferai un impromptu a loisir.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Les Precieuses Ridicules (I, 12) It was whispered balm, it was sunshine spoken! - Thomas Moore If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. - William Edward Norris, Thirlby Hall (vol. I, p. 315) War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair), 1984 (pt. 1, ch. 1) In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. - George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair), Shooting an Elephant When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly. - Francis Osborne (Osborn) I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone. [Lat., Barbarus his ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristia (bk. V, 10, 37) Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. [Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous? N'en dites point.] - Blaise Pascal, Pensees (VI, 59) You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (5, 14) Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. - Plato (originally Aristocles}, see Plutarch "Life of Pericles" You drown him by your talk. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. [Lat., Odiosa est oratio, cum rem agas, longinquum loqui.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Mercator (III, 4, 23) He speaks to a dead man (i.e. wastes words). [Lat., Verba facit mortuo.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Poenulus (act IV, 2, 18) In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. - Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus), Epistles (bk. I, 20) Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. - Plutarch Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. - Plutarch Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers. - Plutarch, Life of Alexander Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs. - Plutarch, Life of Themistocles In their declamations and speeches they made use of words to veil and muffle their design. - Plutarch, On Hearing (V), of the Sophists Displaying page 5 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8
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