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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe. - Percy Bysshe Shelley No one minds what Jeffrey says--it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator. - Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (vol. I) God giveth speech to all, song to the few. - Walter Chalmers Smith, Editorial (l. 15, Olrig Grange, bk. I) Speech is the image of actions. - Solon Seldom is there much spoke, but something or other had better not been spoke. - Bishop Robert South Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. - Bishop Robert South, Sermon Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again. - John Sterling Lovers are apt to hear through their eyes, but the safest way is to see through their ears. Who was it that said, "Speak, that I may see you?" - Laurence Sterne Conversation is the image of the mind; as the man, so is his speech. [Lat., Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent. [Lat., Saepius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse poenitet.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims, also attributed to Xenocrates Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Speech is a faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.] - attributed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, by Barrere in "Memoirs" Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before. [Lat., Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Eunuchus--Prologue (XLI), as quoted by Donatus On the day of the dinner of the Oystermongers' Company, what a noble speech I thought of in the cab! - William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers--On Two Papers I intended to write Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I hold Of that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold! So should her deathless beauty take no wrong, Praised in her own great kindred's fit and cognate tongue. Or if that language yet with us abode Which Adam in the garden talked with God! But our untempered speech descends--poor heirs! Grimy and rough-cast still from Babel's brick layers: Curse on the brutish jargon we inherit, Strong but to damn, not memorise, a spirit! A cheek, a lip, a limb, a bosom, they Move with light ease in speech of working-day; And women we do use to praise even so. - Francis Thompson, Her Portrait The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. - Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau's Journal (March 15, 1842), found in H.G.O. Blake's "Early Spring in Massachusetts," p. 19 Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. - Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. - Martin Farquhar Tupper There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), License of the Press Displaying page 7 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
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