833 Quotes About Speech

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual...

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

They have a heckler's veto over speech and content.

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.