Speak Quotes - page 3

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. (Anne Rice)
When we speak the word "life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. View quote
E. M. Forster
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. View quote
Orson Scott Card
You who speak languages, you are such liars. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There are people who would never be in love had they not heard [others] speak of love. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
People who speak Belarusian can not do anything except talk on it, because it is impossible to express anything great in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world. Russian and English. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. View quote
Oscar Wilde
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show. View quote
Glenn Beck
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. (Jean de La Bruyère)
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. View quote
George Herbert
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. View quote
Jane Austen
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
Plutarch
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. (Hesiod)
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. View quote
Octavio Paz
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański