Speech Quotes

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. [La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.]

The more flowery a person’s speech the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.[Les discours exagérés cachant les affections médiocres.]

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

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for us to magnify all of our sensations and impressions… perhaps so that we could believe in them.[No hacemos más que mentir y darnos importancia. La palabra se hizo para exagerar nuestras sensaciones e impresiones todas…, acaso para creerlas.]

Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one’s own antagonists.

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Speech is a rolling-machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses![La parole est un laminoir qui allonge toujours les sentiments.]

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn’t leave you too much over for action.

Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted.