Speak Quotes

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you. (Leo Tolstoy)
Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. View quote
Euripides
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. View quote
Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. View quote
Laozi
We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak. View quote
Albert Einstein
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. View quote
Plato
In a well-governed country, speak boldly and act boldly. In a country where lawlessness prevails, let your actions be bold but your speech tactful. View quote
Confucius
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. View quote
William Shakespeare
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. View quote
George Orwell
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. (Aristotle)
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, count a hundred. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. View quote
William Blake
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? View quote
Clarence Darrow
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. View quote
José Martí
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! View quote
Pablo Picasso
I can speak Esperanto like a native. View quote
Spike Milligan
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. View quote
Winston Churchill