Speech Quotes - page 3

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend? (Roger Ebert)
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple. View quote
John Millington Synge
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. View quote
Edith Wharton
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. (Kenneth Grahame)
I love America. I love our freedom. And nowhere could a guy like me, a schlub like me have success with -- where would I get this freedom of speech? They don't allow this anywhere. View quote
Howard Stern
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. View quote
Publilius Syrus
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. View quote
Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. View quote
Francis Bacon
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. View quote
John Steinbeck
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. View quote
Plutarch
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. View quote
Lucy Stone
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. (William Wordsworth)
All the big powers...they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. View quote
Robertson Davies