833 Quotes About Speech

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.