speech Quotes

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:freedom speech politics

“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:truth action speech goodness

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:speech

“He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:action speech

“Be not too hasty . . . to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:speech morality

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion, but to human ears cannot without process of speech be told, so told as earthly notion can receive.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

topic:action speech

“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:words speech meaning

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:women speech feelings

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