Quotes About Speech

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

If you 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.

Speech is the index of the mind.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Talkers are no good doers.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

How forcible are right words!

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A word spoken in good season, how good it is!

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.