Quotes About Speech

Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it as far as the mouth because it is swallowed dry.

Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered. Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls.

Before we can heal others with our speech, we need to get a handle on our own mind and its propensities.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

how much time like this it holds on how much time resting is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you.

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.