833 Quotes About Speech

Language is neither merely the field of expression, nor merely the means of expression, nor merely the two jointly. Thought and poesy never just use language to express themselves with its help; rather, thought and poesy are in themselves the originary, the essential, and therefore also the final speech that language speaks through the mouth of man.

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.