Definition of speak

"speak" in the verb sense

1. talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise

express in speech

"She talks a lot of nonsense"

"This depressed patient does not verbalize"

2. talk, speak

exchange thoughts talk with

"We often talk business"

"Actions talk louder than words"

3. speak, talk

use language

"the baby talks already"

"the prisoner won't speak"

"they speak a strange dialect"

4. address, speak

give a speech to

"The chairman addressed the board of trustees"

5. speak

make a characteristic or natural sound

"The drums spoke"

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Quotations for speak

Speak not evil of the dead. [ Chilon ]

Great sorrows cannot speak. [ John Donne ]

Speak low, if you speak love. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II. Sc.1 ]

To speak of love begets love. [ Pascal ]

Give me the eloquent cheek,
When blushes burn and die,
Like thine its changes speak,
The spirit's purity. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Speak of the gods as they are. [ Bias ]

Spare to speak spare to speed. [ Proverb ]

I'll speak to thee in silence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, no! we never mention her;
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word. [ T. H. Bayly ]

Speak fitly or be silent wisely. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Actions speak louder than words. [ Proverb ]

Be swift to hear, slow to speak. [ Proverb ]

Hear first and speak afterwards. [ Spanish Proverb ]

To speak of love is to make love. [ Balzac ]

To speak like a mouse in a cheese. [ Proverb ]

Brave men do not boast nor bluster,
Deeds, not words, speak for such. [ Rivarol ]

One may think that dares not speak. [ Proverb ]

To the valiant actions speak alone. [ Smollett ]

Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Even fools sometimes speak shrewdly. [ Proverb ]

Speak of the devil and he'll appear. [ Proverb ]

Spare your rhetoric and speak logic. [ Proverb ]

Speak the truth and shame the devil. [ Proverb ]

Words that weep and tears that speak. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Speak not of a dead man at the table. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]

Must hear, and see, and speak the best. [ Proverb ]

What thou seest, speak of with caution. [ Solon ]

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. [ Bible ]

Dull, conceited hashes,
Confuse their brains in college classes;
They gang in stirks, and come oot asses,
Plain truth to speak. [ Burns ]

I cannot believe you, you speak so fair. [ Proverb ]

All are not friends that speak one fair. [ Proverb ]

They speak of hope to the fainting heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most, to my capacity. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V. Sc.1 ]

We know not what we do When we speak words. [ Shelley ]

A heavier task could not have been imposed,
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. [ William Shakespeare ]

Know when to speak, for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings. [ Herrick ]

One cannot speak the truth with false words. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

They speak of hope to the fainting heart,
With a voice of promise they come and part,
They sleep in dust through the wintry hours,
They break forth in glory - bring flowers,
bright flowers! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. [ Bible ]

Better speak truth rudely than lie covertly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing. [ Proverb ]

Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. [ William Shakespeare ]

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. [ Blair ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin. [ Proverb ]

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. [ Robert Herrick ]

Half-witted fellows speak much and say little. [ Proverb ]

Were drums speak out, laws hold their tongues. [ Proverb ]

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you. [ Proverb ]

The true and the false speak the same language. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace. [ Bailey ]

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. [ William Shakespeare ]

Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. [ Webster ]

You were begot a nutting, you speak in clusters. [ Proverb ]

Grey hairs are wisdom - if you hold your tongue;
Speak - and they are but hairs, as in the young. [ Philo ]

Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]

To speak of a usurer at the table mars the wine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Speak good of pipers, your father was a fiddler. [ Proverb ]

Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain.
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses, newly washed with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Speak what you will, an ill man will turn it ill. [ Proverb ]

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. [ Alphonse Karr ]

He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

Some that speak no ill of any, do no good to any. [ Proverb ]

Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]

Give losers leave to speak, and winners to laugh. [ Proverb ]

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held! [ Wordsworth ]

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. [ Delaune ]

These gems have life in them: their colors speak,
Say what words fail of. [ George Eliot ]

Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. [ Rousseau ]

The face should give leave to the tongue to speak. [ Proverb ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

I know enough to hold my tongue, but not to speak. [ Proverb ]

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of judgment. [ Rousseau ]

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. [ Otway ]

It is a bad cause indeed that none dares speak in. [ Proverb ]

Love and pease will make a man speak at both ends. [ Proverb ]

Your words bring daylight with them when you speak. [ George Eliot ]

Speak not of my debts, unless you mean to pay them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Write with the learned,, but speak with the vulgar. [ Proverb ]

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Nor actions, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? [ Horace ]

Men speak of the fair as things went with them there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. [ Crashaw ]

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. [ Seneca ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned. [ Coke ]

We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. [ St. Peter and St. John ]

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. [ William Shakespeare ]

He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

Speak when you are spoken to, come when you are called. [ Proverb ]

Jack would be a gentleman if he could but speak French. [ Proverb ]

Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

It is easier to know how to speak, than how to be silent. [ Proverb ]

It is in vain to speak reason, where it will not be heard. [ Proverb ]

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it. [ Hazlitt ]

Be silent before a great man, or speak what may please him. [ Proverb ]

There are rhymes which speak to the eye, and not to the ear. [ J. Cauvin ]

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

It is difficult to speak to the belly because it has no ears. [ Plutarch ]

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it. [ Pittacbus ]

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Speak when you're spoken to, and drink when you're drunken to. [ Proverb ]

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. [ Bible ]

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
Only a signal shewn and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. [ Aaron Hill ]

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. [ Fenelon ]

Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. [ Zimmermann ]

Maidens shoud be mild and meek, quick to hear and slow to speak. [ Proverb ]

It is one thing to speak much, and another to speak pertinently. [ Proverb ]

When men speak ill of you, live so that nobody will believe them. [ Burke ]

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [ Jefferson ]

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. [ Lord Bacon ]

Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

You can speak well, if your tongue deliver the message of your heart. [ John Ford ]

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. [ La Roche ]

It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. [ Richter ]

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness. [ Johnson ]

Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered as possessing merit. [ From the French ]

Speak to living ears as you will wish you had spoken when they are dead.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. [ Pascal ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same; and to speak well are two things. [ Ben Jonson ]

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

He that does not speak truth to me, does not believe me when I speak truth. [ Proverb ]

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves at all. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The grief that does not speak whispers the overfraught heart and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of his mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Resolved: Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonor. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]

Shallow men speak of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. [ Longfellow ]

Never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people who can't get into it do that. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? [ Sir T. Browne ]

The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses. [ A. Karr ]

To speak but little becomes a woman: and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. [ Democritus ]

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]

To speak, but say nothing, is for three people out of four to express all they think. [ O. Commettant ]

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit; but God to man doth speak in solitude. [ John Stuart Blackie ]

Ten Things To Do.

Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.

Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you. [ Ward Beecher ]

To know how to be silent is more difficult, and more profitable, than to know how to speak. [ Fee ]

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. [ Mrs. Browning ]

He smiled as men smile when they will not speak, because of something bitter in the thought. [ Mrs. Browning ]

It is a sad thing when men have neither wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. [ La Bruyere ]

Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision. [ Lavater ]

The acclaim of a happy people is the only eloquence which ought to speak in the behalf of kings.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their eyes. [ Montaigne ]

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. [ Steele ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others! [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well, or not enough judgment to keep silent. [ La Bruyere ]

The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. [ Cecil ]

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree. [ Rutherford ]

Glances in a young woman are charming interpreters, which express what the lips would not dare to speak.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

A man behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. [ Epictetus ]

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. [ Ruskin ]

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. [ Bailey ]

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice. [ Sidney Dobell ]

Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? - Such may rail against great buildings. [ William Shakespeare ]

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. [ Arthur Helps ]

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. [ Alexander Smith ]

There are several ways to speak: to speak well, to speak easily, to speak justly, and to speak at the right moment. [ La Bruyere ]

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her; but use none; my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. [ William Shakespeare ]

The realities of life are so repellent that few dare to look them in the face, and still fewer dare to speak of them. [ De Finod ]

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We speak of profane arts, but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light. [ Tegner ]

Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. [ Father Du Bosc ]

Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all. [ Pigault-Lebrun ]

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 ]

Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [ Cicero ]

If thou kiss Wisdom's cheek and make her thine, she will breathe into thy lips divinity, and thou, like Phoebus, shalt speak oracle. [ Decker ]

When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying and lying is the whole way to hell. [ William Penn ]

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. [ Madame Necker ]

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]

A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous. [ Voltaire ]

If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. [ Selkirk ]

To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. [ Bacon ]

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. [ Longfellow ]

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. [ Bacon ]

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct: for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily. [ Confucius ]

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. [ Beecher ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. [ Fontenelle ]

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. [ Tillotson ]

In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked. [ Hitopadesa ]

Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Taught by experience to know my own blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err, and as if others might not in some disputed points be more enlightened than myself? [ Channing ]

A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]

Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other. [ Burton ]

Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. [ Carlyle ]

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. [ Pascal ]

Women speak easily of platonic love; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilette that does not drive platonism from our hearts. [ A. Ricard ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. [ Carlyle ]

Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners: beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. [ Joubert ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. [ Washington Irving ]

Ideas are, like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down, so to speak, to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings the way is never ending, and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable. [ Bovee ]

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, us if they could not forgive them for not being as irreproachable as they wish them to be. [ T. Gautier ]

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. [ George Eliot ]

Let him speak of his own deeds, and not of those of his forefathers. High birth is mere accident, and not a virtue; for if reason had controlled birth, and given empire only to the worthy, perhaps Arbaces would have been Xerxes, and Xerxes Arbaces. [ Metastasio ]

Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

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 ]

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. [ Hazlitt ]

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. [ Emerson ]

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]

Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]

In my opinion mothers ought to bring up and suckle their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them; but the love of a nurse is spurious and counterfeit, as loving them only for hire. [ Plutarch ]

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn, We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. [ Thomas Starr King ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]

In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken, answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart, she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too? he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper, adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]

The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it. Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

speak in Scrabble®

The word speak is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

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speak in Words With Friends™

The word speak is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters speak:

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Words within the letters of speak

2 letter words in speak (3 words)

3 letter words in speak (9 words)

4 letter words in speak (6 words)

5 letter words in speak (Anagrams) (2 words)

speak + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving speak

Shorter words in speak

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Longer words containing speak

bespeak

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geekspeak

mellowspeak mellowspeaks

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