Quotes About Speech

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

In life three things we cannot control or stop Thinking, Talking and feelings.

Pay attention to whatever you say because a knot tied with your tongue can't be undone with your teeth.

Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates; At the first gate, ask yourself, is is true? At the second gate ask, is it necessary? At the third gate ask, is it kind?

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

To my ear, Bergotte's way of speaking was completely different from his way of writing; and even the things he said differed from the things that fill his books. A voice emerges from a mask; unaided, it is not up to showing us immediately a face we have glimpsed naked in a style.

to our paying too much attention to the aspect, the manners of what a person is not but would like to be, in forming our first impression of that person. To the outward appearance affectation, imitation, the longing to be admired, whether by the good or by the wicked, add misleading similarities of speech and gesture.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Urchin decided to put off his carefully prepared speech until they were on the shore. They sat on the rocks at low tide as they had so often before, watching anemones and sea urchins while Sepia dabbled her paws in the water. Finally he decided that his speech was ridiculous, and simply asked her to marry him.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

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.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.