Quotes About Speech

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

This speaker may turn out to be a "confidence man" with a trick up his sleeve, but we are attracted by such familiar flavors of speech, the way that bees are attracted to the blue juice of a melting popsicle.

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.

Hay aquí un individuo que, si hablo, me robaría los pensamientos.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.

I can talk!" she shouted. "I'm free! Let's go kill that evil son of a slug!

Mshish vemmy shmewy," Clay mumbled around the fruit in his jaws.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, "enriched" by all this.

The hardest thing was simply to speak.

True, she did speak as she was being tortured, but can moans and cries be classed as words? Besides, they often stilled her by gagging.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.