63 quotes found
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
“If you your lips would keep from slips Five things observe with care To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.”
“It is a tiresome way of speaking when you should despatch the business to beat about the bush.”
“A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
“He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.”
“Speak after the manner of men.”
“Speech is the index of the mind.”
“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wantin...”
“Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.”
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.”
“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.”
“It’s quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your voca...”
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
“Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.”
“His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."”
“Speech is silvern silence is golden.”
“A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
“For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.”
“For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!”
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
