Quotes about Speech

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules

When People talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.