Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that speaks lavishly,
Shall hear as knavishly. [ Proverb ]
Genius speaks only to genius. [ Stanislaus ]
Nature always speaks of spirit. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Sometimes a fool speaks reasonably.
Every one speaks of it, few know it. [ Mme. Roland ]
The blushing cheek speaks modest mind.
The lips befitting words most kind,
The eye does tempt to love's desire,
And seems to say 'tis Cupid's fire. [ Harrington ]
Every word he speaks is a syren's note
To draw the careless hearer. [ Beaumont ]
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. [ Cowper ]
The effect speaks, the tongue needs not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks. [ Proverb ]
Ill will never speaks well nor does well. [ Proverb ]
He that speaks sows, he that hears reaps. [ Proverb ]
Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude. [ Scotch Proverb ]
A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her. [ Proverb ]
Every one speaks of it, - who has known it? [ Mme. Necker ]
Every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]
He speaks as if every word would lift a dish. [ Proverb ]
When gold speaks, no reason the least avails. [ Proverb ]
Love is a child that talks in broken language,
Yet then he speaks most plain. [ Dryden ]
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act. IV. Sc. 3 ]
As love thinks no evil, so envy speaks no good. [ Proverb ]
When gold speaks you may even hold your tongue. [ Proverb ]
Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks,
Already reddening in thy guilty cheeks. [ Byron ]
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip.
Nay, her foot speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]
He that speaks ill of his wife dishonours himself. [ Proverb ]
Solitude is the voice of Nature that speaks to us. [ George Sand ]
And none speaks false, when there is none to hear. [ Beattie ]
When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]
A journeying woman speaks much of all and all of her. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. [ Crashaw ]
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. [ Proverb ]
God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse. [ De Bernis ]
He that commits a fault thinks every one speaks of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow. [ Proverb ]
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that speaks sows, and he that holds his peace gathers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. [ Cicero ]
The groundsel speaks not, save what it heard at the hinges. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He is not good himself, who speaks well of every body alike. [ Proverb ]
Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He speaks one word nonsense, and two that have nothing in them. [ Proverb ]
One of our poets - which is it? - speaks of an everlasting now. [ Southey ]
Truth makes the face of that person shine who speaks and owns it. [ South ]
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. [ W. Phillips ]
It is God himself who speaks to us, when noble thoughts inspire us.
Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]
Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares boast of his wit. [ La Roche ]
He that speaks the thing he should not shall hear the thing he would not. [ Proverb ]
Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little. [ Carlyle ]
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. [ Saadi ]
He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]
A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The more anyone speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]
Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of his mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself. [ Carlyle ]
Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. [ Maturin ]
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool, when he speaks. [ Proverb ]
The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man of the town and the world, is the playhouse. [ Steele ]
Interest speaks all languages, and acts all parts, even that of disinterestedness itself. [ Rochefoucauld ]
With fragrant breath the lilies woo me now, and softly speaks the sweet-voiced mignonette. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant, action alone speaks. [ Tobias Smollett ]
A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. [ Buddha ]
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested. [ La Roche ]
To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speaks the truth. [ Hazlitt ]
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [ Ben Jonson ]
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. [ Montesquieu ]
Duty speaks with the lawful authority of many voices; pleasure has no strength except in the longing desire of the hungry unit. [ Edith Simcox ]
There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. [ William Winter ]
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. [ Southern ]
Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]
Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? [ Alcott ]
"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]
Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]
Persuasion, Sect, or Denomination? Persuasion, the definition of which should be plain to every one who speaks English, is often ludicrously used in the sense of sect or denomination; as, He is of the Methodist persuasion
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]
Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. [ Tuckerman ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]