Quotes About Speech

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.

I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

Speak, hands, for me!

Talkers are no good doers.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.