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Quotes About Speech

And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back? And when it is said to them: Come, the Apostle of Allah will ask forgiveness for you, they turn back their heads and you may see them turning away while they are big with pride.
~ Unknown
Whoever loves a pure heart and gracious speech will have the king as a friend.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I wish there was a backspace key for my mouth.
~ Unknown
Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I wonder if your a.. is jealous of the sh.. that comes out of your mouth.
~ Unknown
Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.
~ Robert Breault
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
~ William Butler Yeats
I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.
~ kresley cole, dead of winter
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
~ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
~ Herbert Bayer
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
~ Sextus Empiricus
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
~ Francis Quarles
The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.
~ Confucius
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
~ Dick Gephardt
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
~ Dennis Miller
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
~ Aesop
They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
~ Edward Bennett Williams
I'm a lifelong stutterer.
~ Bill Walton
One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
To be able to sit in your living room, watch a speech live by the president, and be able to look into his eyes, and make your own decision - that's television.
~ Ken Berry
Not only does Annette Bening have a really lovely, deep voice, but she's also a great articulator. I think I'm more of a mumbler.
~ Lisa Cholodenko