Quotes about Speech
His faith wavered, but not his speech: it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow.
— George Eliot
To think with pleasure of his niece's husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing—to make a Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
— George Eliot
In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs. Cadwallader's match-making will show a play of minute causes producing what may be called thought and speech vortices to bring her the sort of food she needed.
— George Eliot
our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
— George Eliot
I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.
— George Eliot
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
— John Calvin
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
— Charles Swindoll
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome