The poetry of speech. [ Byron ]
It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed; [ Horatius Bonar ]
Silence sweeter is than speech. [ D. M. Mulock ]
Thought is deeper than all speech.
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught. [ C. P. Cranch ]
A fool's speech is a bubble of air. [ Proverb ]
Speech is silver, silence is golden. [ Carlyle ]
The wind breath'd soft a lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene! [ Scott ]
Silence in woman is like speech in man. [ Ben Jonson ]
Speech is of time, silence is eternity. [ Carlyle ]
More have repented speech than silence. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Literature is the immortality of speech. [ R. A. Willmott ]
Speech is great, but silence is greater. [ Carlyle ]
A mediocre speech can never be too short. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. [ William Shakespeare ]
God giveth speech to all, song to the few. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. [ Republican Rallying Cry, 1856 ]
You can never speech courage into a coward. [ Proverb ]
Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery. [ Bailey ]
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Carlyle ]
Such harmony in motion, speech and air,
That without fairness, she was more than fair. [ Crabbe ]
Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. [ Virgil ]
Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. [ Seneca ]
Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. [ Talleyrand ]
Fine eyes are to the face what eloquence is to speech.
Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. [ Carlyle ]
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. [ Rivarol ]
Speech is the vestment of thought and expression its armor. [ Rivarol ]
Her eye in silence hath a speech which eye best understands. [ Southwell ]
Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]
There are glances that have more wit than the most subtle speech.
To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. [ Juv ]
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. [ Plutarch ]
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. [ William Shakespeare ]
The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. [ Lavater ]
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. [ Emerson ]
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. [ Theodore Parker ]
Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. [ La Fontaine ]
Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. [ Cato ]
Silence often expresses more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The garrulous sea is talking to the shore; let us go down and hear the graybeard's speech. [ Alexander Smith ]
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. [ Herbert Spencer ]
The speech of the tongue is best known to men; God best understands the language of the heart. [ Warwick ]
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. [ Emerson ]
Brevity is the best recommendation of a speech, not only in the case of a senator, but in that, too, of an orator. [ Cicero ]
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. [ Hughes ]
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. [ Washington Gladden ]
Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. [ Carlyle ]
Sincere wise speech{} (even) {} is but an imperfect corollary, and insignificant outer manifestation of sincere wise thought. [ Carlyle ]
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time. [ Southey ]
There is an exchange of thought and feeling which is happy alike in speech and in silence. It is quietness pervaded with friendship. [ Henry van Dyke ]
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. [ Abraham Coles ]
Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. [ James A. Garfield ]
Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]
Speech is a laggard and a sloth; but the eyes shoot out electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. [ Horace Smith ]
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 ]
The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy, many a speech to a sentence, and many a folio to a primer. [ Colton ]
Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
It's a long stretch between that first birthday speech and this one. That was my cradle-song; and this is my swan-song, I suppose. I am used to swan-songs; I have sung them several times. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
What the tender and poetic youth dreams today, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is tomorrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. [ Emerson ]
Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]
Rhyme is the elementary art of the poet; but at the same time he must possess that vehement passion for melody that buoys his speech into song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life move in a melodious rhythm. [ Bentivoglio ]
If there is excellence in my composition, set it down, first of all things and last, to the general fact that I have no method. Modes of expression in writing, like modes of expression in speech, are referable purely to feeling, not studied, but of the moment. [ Gen. Lew Wallace, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
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 ]
True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit; at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England, and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. [ Bartol ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]
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 ]
It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph, but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. [ Charles James Fox ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me.
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]