Authors:

Speech Quotes - Page 37

I can give the loser leave to chide.

I can give the loser leave to chide.

William Shakespeare (2003). “Henry VI, Part Two”, p.188, Oxford University Press, USA

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

1604-5 Countess to Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.64-5.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.233

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

William Congreve (1752). “The old bachelor. The double-dealer. Love for love”, p.180

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.101

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Walter Lippmann, John Morton Blum (1985). “Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann”, Book Sales

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.55, Vintage

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt