Quotes About Speech

We all like the idea of freedom of speech, but nobody likes to be confronted by the truth.

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.

Companion none is likeUnto the mind alone;For many have been harmed by speech,Through thinking, few or none.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

He uses language that would make your hair curl.

I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon.

Mirroring makes speech possible; language relies on the reflective quality of I and you through which verbal interaction becomes possible.

I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

You didn't improvise that speech back there, she said. How long were you working on that? Day or two. Got a bunch of it from The West Wing . That was the only show I was never allowed to watch when I was a kid, so it's my favourite. I wonder who my dad will have as VP if he gets into the White House? I'm rooting for a cloud of bats. What about you, Stevie? You know him better than I do.

It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment.

Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'.

You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth.

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence

Author Glennon Doyle Melton wrote, "Every time we open our mouths and speak, we are either saying let their be light or let their be darkness.

when your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How

Now the days stretch before you with the dryness and sameness of desert dunes. And in this season of grief we who love you have become invisible to you. Our words worry the empty air around you and you can sense no meaning in our speech. Yet, we are here. We are still here. Our hearts ache to support you. We are always loving you. You are not alone.

Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals

If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER