Generally Speaking

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

“Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)