Quotes About Speech

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

Keep a good tongue in your head.

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

I wear notMy dagger in my mouth.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

'Tis well said again;And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.

A good mouth-filling oath.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Love all, trust a few,Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemyRather in power than use, and keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,But never tax'd for speech.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.

Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach   Of ordinary men; a stately speech!

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back." #quotesilikebydkc

I]ch habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen." ("I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: Berlin will live, and the Wall will come down.") Speech at Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin City Hall) on November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]