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If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.259

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.250

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

"Interview with Representative Renee Ellmers". RealClearPolitics interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 1, 2011.

Everyone speaks stupid.

Source: www.avclub.com

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.213, Harvard University Press

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98