Speech

"Je vous ferai un impromptu à loisir."

"If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where."

"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli."

"Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous? N'en dites point."

"Verba togæ sequeris."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"Odiosa est oratio, cum rem agas, longinquum loqui."

"Verba facit mortuo."

"In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity."

"Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers."

"Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs."

"In their declamations and speeches they made use of words to veil and muffle their design."

"And empty heads console with empty sound."

"A soft answer turneth away wrath."

"Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate."

"Man lernt Verschwiegenheit am meisten unter Menschen, die Keine haben—und Plauderhaftigheit unter Verschwiegenen."

"Speak after the manner of men."

"Was ist der langen Rede kurzer Sinn?"

"Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth."

"That was one lumpy shit. That was one continuous shit but it was really lumpy, I'm just saying."

"Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita."

"No one minds what Jeffrey says—it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator."

"God giveth speech to all, song to the few."

"Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."

"Sæpius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse pœnitet."

"Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est."

"La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée."

"Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy."

"Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius."

"On the day of the dinner of the Oystermongers' Company, what a noble speech I thought of in the cab!"

"Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I hold Of that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold! So should her deathless beauty take no wrong, Praised in her own great kindred's fit and cognate tongue, Or if that language yet with us abode Which Adam in the garden talked with God! But our untempered speech descends—poor heirs! Grimy and rough-cast still from Babel's brick layers: Curse on the brutish jargon we inherit, Strong but to damn, not memorise, a spirit! A cheek, a lip, a limb, a bosom, they Move with light ease in speech of working-day; And women we do use to praise even so."

"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique."

"Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées."

"Il faut distinguer entre parler pour tromper et se taire pour être impénétrable."

"Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach Of ordinary men."