Quotes About Speech

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

Don't talk too fast, you will trip on your words.

Let the hand of discretion cover the wise mouth.

Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.

Words, just sometimes, can set you free.

In reality, there was no truly free press in America anymore,

National security was invoked so freely that the First Amendment had become an empty promise.

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

Everett scholar Ronald Reid's survey of 260 newspapers throughout the Union states showed that editorial comments emphasized Everett's speech over Lincoln's.

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

They always talk who never think.

They talk most who have the least to say.

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Quand tout est dit, ce qui reste à dire est le désastre, ruine de parole, défaillance par l'écriture, rumeur qui murmure : ce qui reste sans reste.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

We would speak of nothing if it were only necessary to speak of that with which we coincide, since speech is already a separation. Moreover, there is no experience without speech, the purely lived is not even found within man's speaking life. But the primary sense of speech is, nevertheless, in this text of experience that it attempts to utter.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.