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Quotes About Speech

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.
~ Frank Zappa
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
~ Judith Martin
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~ Mae West
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.
~ Cassandra Clare
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.
~ David Brooks
Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Women have a greater verbal capacity.
~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Words are women, deeds are men.
~ George Herbert
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
~ Jonathan Swift
I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.
~ Laura Schlessinger
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
love is my thighs, this belly, my eyes.love is my speech, the search, my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.
~ Ava, You Are Safe Here.
Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!
~ John Webster, The White Devil
The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.
~ Patrice O'Neal
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
~ Marilyn Manson
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
~ Ira Glass
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.
~ Tom Wolfe
In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
~ John Dickerson
For the Revolutionary generation, silent virtue almost always would be valued more than loud eloquence.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
a geyser of moral rebuke, erupting against teenagers who have committed some act of cultural appropriation, against the hiring of an actor for an inappropriate role, against a public speech by someone with unpopular views
~ Thomas Frank
The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.
~ Thomas Fuller
Paul heard not one sermon of Christ's (that he knew of) while on earth, and received the gospel from no man, apostle or other, but by the immediate revelation of Jesus Christ from heaven, as he speaks, Galatians 1:11-12. But he was converted by Christ himself from heaven, by immediate speech and conference of Christ himself with him, and this long after his ascension.
~ Thomas Goodwin