Quotes About Speech

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

He was clearly about to launch into some kind of speech. Eddie thought he'd hear it better if he was standing alongside Jennifer.

It is time we recognised the casual normalisation of lethal misogyny as an act of political terrorism and not, as the mindless purveyors of the free speech doctrine would argue, as simply the democratic right to masturbate to whatever takes his fancy.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.

I have no speech to make to you, and no time to speak in. I appear before you that I may see you, and that you may see me; and I am willing to admit that so far as the ladies are concerned, I have the best of the bargain, though I wish it to be understood that I do not make the same acknowledgement concerning the men.

Fourscore and seven years ago...

I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

We should be eternally vigilant against the attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Thy tongue sounds in accordance with thy form. (Vulcan)

Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.