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)

    “Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.”
    —Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)

    ““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
    Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
    Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
    Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
    I’m speaking of metres;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)