Quotes About Speech

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

Man's word is God in man.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.