Secret Speech

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or speech:

    “A man’s true merit ‘tis not hard to find;
    But each man’s secret standard in his mind,
    That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness,
    This, who can gratify, for who can guess?”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error there may be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)