Quotes About Speech

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Ru ... ra ... wah ... who? He finally managed to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.

Nobody knows what language is. It isn't just speech, that's for sure. But try to explain that to some of these reductionist structural linguists.

Flatbush accent.

Of the dead'… hmmm… 'speak well or say nothing.

Our modes of speech are bred in the bone, madam. We cannot escape them any more than we can the colour of our eyes.

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

A word uttered cannot be taken back

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.

It's as easy to utter lies as truth

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.