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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Thoughts

Disguise

Man

Speech

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

Play

Speech

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Language

Speech

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Conservation

Speech

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Madame de Stael

Language

Speech

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Susan Sontag

Silence

Speech

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.