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)

“The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [the territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

““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)