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Quotes About Speech

For rhetoric, he could not opeHis mouth, but out there flew a trope.
~ Samuel Butler
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
~ Samuel Butler
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
~ Samuel Johnson
Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.
~ Samuel Johnson
None but the dead have free speech.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
He wanted to talk and had nothing to say.
~ Samuel R. Delany
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~ Samuel R. Delany
The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motivehunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I pass, like night, from land to land;I have strange power of speech;That moment that his face I see,I know the man that must hear me:To him my tale I teach.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.
~ Sandra E. Lamb
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just
~ Sappho
I want to say something but shame prevents me yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just
~ Sappho
The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...
~ Sappho
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~ Sappho
If for things good and noble thou wert yearning, If to speak baseness were thy tongue not burning, No load of shame would on thine eyelids weigh; What thou with honour wishest thou wouldst say.
~ Sappho
Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.
~ Bernie Sanders
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
~ James Earl Jones
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
~ Josh Gad
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
~ Aristotle
You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
~ David Crystal
As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.
~ David Jeremiah