Quotes About Speech

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

How Rhythm Beautifies.- Rhythm casts a veil over reality; it causes various artificiality's of speech and obscurities of thought; by the shadow it throws upon thought it sometimes conceals it, and sometimes brings it into prominence. As shadow is necessary to beauty, so the "dull" is necessary to lucidity. Art makes the aspect of life endurable by throwing over it the veil of obscure thought.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

The words of men pass away when they have been conceived and uttered, but the Word of God is eternally uttered and can never cease from utterance.

Voulez-vous qu'on pense et qu'on dise du bien de vous, n'en dites point vous-même

Not to speak would have infused the moment with more meaning than it deserved.

If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.