Speech Quotes - Page 10

• The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Manners

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• Speech isn't for agony.

  Hortense Calisher

  Agony, Suffering

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Journey, Cheerful

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.6, Alice Meynell

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• You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Class, Togas, Language

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• Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Independent Judiciary, Freedom Of Speech, Slavery

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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• Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Silence, Values

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• Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

  Theodore Parker

  Silence, Cold, Figures

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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• We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Free Speech

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the People of Estonia at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2014.

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• The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Swelling

  "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.

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• It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

  Augustus William Hare

  Illustration, Giving, Way

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• a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

  Rae Foley

  Degrees, Literacy, Politician

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• we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

  Beatrice Webb

  Fire, Answers, Opponents

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Too Much, Speak

  Ingrid Bergman, Alan Burgess (1981). “Ingrid Bergman, my story”

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• Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent;
  For if thou utt'rest but a single word,
  A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech,
  I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth,
  To bellow with the damn'd!

  Joanna Baillie

  Hem, Earth, Spirit

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.179, Broadview Press

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• When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

  James Martineau

  Running, Forever, Soul

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.147

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• He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

  Gerald R. Ford

  Leader, Political, Mets

  www.foxnews.com.

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• We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

  Viola Spolin

  Freedom Of Speech, Theatre, Watches

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• Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
  They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;
  For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
  [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace:
  Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida,
  Si tra se volge.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Women, Heart, Crafts

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• I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

  Margaret Halsey

  People, Generations, Rising

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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• After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Silence, World, Silence Is

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• Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

  Mary Webb

  People, Great Love, Silence

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• The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Freedom Of Speech, Fundamentals, Nations

  "Rep. Markwayne Mullin defends "Duck Dynasty" star's speech rights" by Chris Casteel, newsok.com. December 19, 2013.

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• It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

  Sharon Creech

  Stupid, Silence, Seems

  Sharon Creech (2012). “Chasing Redbird”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  Nancy Friday

  Nice, Clothes, Order

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• However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

  Mary MacLane

  May, Language, Great Ones

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