Formal Speech

Famous quotes containing the words formal 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, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)