Speech Quotes - Page 10
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
'Essays' 5 'The Use of Language'
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
Ludwig van Beethoven (2017). “Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.61
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.
Ingrid Bergman, Alan Burgess (1981). “Ingrid Bergman, my story”
Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.249, MIT Press
Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd
Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin
Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175
Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.491
Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc