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SPEECH
SPEECH
 


1

I had a thing to say,
But I will fit it with some better time.

King John. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 25.


2

Tfhe tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible,
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen
Above the sense of sense; so sensible
Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings
Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 256.


A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 747.


It may be right; but you are i' the wrong
To speak before your time.

Measure for Measure. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 86.


Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 4.


She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 255.


Rude am I in my speech,
And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace;
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd
Their dearest action in the tented field,
And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself.

Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 81.
(See also Corinthians)


Your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.

Richard II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 6.


I would be loath to cast away my speech, for besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it.

Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 183.


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

Sydney SmithLady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I.


God giveth speech to all, song to the few.

Walter C. SmithEditorial. L. 15. Olrig Grange. Bk. I.


Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men,
whereby to communicate their mind; but to
wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Bishop South—Sermon. April 30, 1676.
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 | text = <poem>Sajpius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse poenitet.
I have often regretted having spoken, never
having kept silent.
Syrus—Maxims.


Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est.
Conversation is the image of the mind; as
the man, so is his speech.
Syrus—Maxims.


La parole a 6t& donnee a Phomme pour d&guiser sa pensée.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Attributed to Talleyrand by Barrere in Memoirs.
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 | text = <poem>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.
The TaOer. No. 252.


Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit
prius.
Nothing is said nowadays that has not been
said before.
Terence—Eunuchus. Prologue. XLT.


On the day of the dinner of the Oystermongers' Company, what a noble speech I
thought of in the cab!
Thackeray—Roundabout Papers. On Two
Papers I intended to write.


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.
Francis Thompson—Her Portrait.


Quand celui a qui Ton parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la me'taphysique.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, this is Metaphysics.
Voltaire.


lis ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que
pour d^guiser leurs pensées.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong
doings, and employ speech only to conceal
their thoughts.
Voltaire—Dialogue XIV. Le Chapon et la
Poulards. (1766)
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Talleyrand, Young
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