Speak Quotes - page 2

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. (Patricia Highsmith)
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. View quote
Frank Gehry
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. View quote
Arthur Balfour
Language shows a man, speak that I may see thee. View quote
Ben Jonson
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. View quote
Willa Cather
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse. View quote
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. (Ray Bradbury)
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. View quote
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, 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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An event... upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. View quote
Edmund Burke
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon. View quote
Steven Brust
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. View quote
Washington Irving