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Speech Quotes - Page 21

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.89

Free speech is life itself.

"Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

"Elegies, II". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

"Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 56 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.