Generally Speaking

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

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”
—Fay Weldon (b. 1933)

“... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)