Quotes About Speech

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds' The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

A substantial and beautiful victory of all victories is to overcome your tongue.

Every person has the right to throw the home rubbish in the dustbin. Similarly, the mental rubbish through prose and poetry also can throw. We say that, too, as the freedom of writing and speech. The guilt is ours, why do we put our hands, in the trash.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean to constitute insulting, abusing, and harming deliberately in a distinctive and discriminative feature and context; whereas, supporting such notions and attempts is a universal crime.

Press and speech that deliberately trigger the hatred, and violation, fall not under the freedom of press and speech since as restrictions for morale and peace, apply to everyone without exemption.

Rude, violent and bitter conduct, discussion, talk, and speech only humiliate and harm oneself, not one else.

Such speech, neither succeeds and accomplishes the positive outcome nor secures and acquires the law and justice, which stays the empty of action.

The words, which come out from the mouth or the pen prove itself that the speaker is insightful or empty of insight.

Though financial donation holds its generosity, and own worth; however, even greater generous than that donation is, sweet attitude, character, and way of talking.

To be silent upon the idiocy is substantial diplomacy; subsequently, to be silent upon cruelty is grave cruelty.

To become the mirror, I criticise myself. I do not misuse and violate the freedom of speech and the press, but I am mostly out and overdosed. I cannot stop without gaming the system. The licence of the tongue and the pen gun is in my hands.

the human mouth is the gateway to catastrophe.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

At the first gate, the gatekeeper asks, "Is this true?" At the second gate, he asks, "Is it kind?" And at the third gate, "Is it necessary?" If we applied this proverb strictly, most of us would have very little to say. I am not recommending silence, however, but control over our speech.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Ha parlato bene, ma senza pensare alle conseguenze". "Si parla bene proprio quando non si pensa alle conseguenze".

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.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

In the Dhammap?da, happiness and unhappiness are said to originate in the mind: 'Speak or act with a corrupted mind, And suffering follows As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.