Speech Quotes

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

Men of few words are the best men.

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.