Quotes About Speech

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Speech is power; speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.

Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;

Even these feasts have their surfeit. Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.

Ephrem the Syrian says, 'Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.' "—Way of a Pilgrim

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak.

If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that.

An appeal to me in this fiendish row - is there? Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.

it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

A man may be able, educated, refined, of unblemished character, nevertheless if he lack the power to express himself, put forth his views in good and appropriate speech he has to take a back seat, while some one with much less ability gets the opportunity to come to the front because he can clothe his ideas in ready words and talk effectively.

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There are ten actions—three of body, four of speech, and three of mind—that plant the seeds of our own future suffering.

The second kind of unwholesome speech is the use of harsh, angry, or aggressive language.