Quotes About Speech

Words] are free. No matter how many syllables they have: free! You can use as many as you want, forever.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is naught, it is naught; saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

If 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.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

The less men think; the more they talk.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

The voice is a second signature.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.