833 Quotes About Speech

Are you willing to follow [Christ] with a disciplined mind and tongue?

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —The Racket shamed me so —And if it had not been so far —And any one I knewWere going — I had often thoughtHow noteless — I could die —

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

Know everything. Say nothing.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

It's far more important why is being said, than what.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.