External Speech

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or speech:

    “The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that’s so dirty I’m ashamed to think of it myself.”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, as a newly-appointed college president commenting on the remarks of Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)