Generally Speaking

Famous quotes containing the words generally speaking, generally and/or speaking:

    “But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)

    “Will, when speaking well can’t win her,
    Saying nothing do’t?
    Prithee, why so mute?”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)