319 Quotes About Speaking

Well...," I said, but I couldn't find the words to say what I wanted to say. I was a decent enough writer, but talking? With sounds? from my mouth? That was a bitch.

Just as open doors let the steam out of a steam bath, so does the person with lips constantly open lose their inner composure.

When you talk, you talk; when you don't talk, your face talks, your body talks! In short, whatever you do, you always talk!

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Speaking of things robs them of half their terrors.

A conversation is always a bother, and confrontation is worse.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.