Quotes About Speech

You have the right to remain silent, but I don't recommend it.

Liberty is the right to silence.

Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

When money talks, no one checks the grammar.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

It is said that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

How can he get wisdom… whose talk is of bullocks?

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Censorship offends me.

A fool uttereth all his mind.

Though I be rude in speech.