speech Quotes

“Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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“Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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