Speak Quotes - page 3

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. (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. View quote
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
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. View quote
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. (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. View quote
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. (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
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
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