Famous quotes containing the word speak:
“I know youre here.... Whats wrong? Are you afraid to speak up? Is that all youre good for, to frighten women? Well, Im not afraid of you. Whoever heard of a cowardly ghost?”
—Philip Dunne (19081992)
“Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,if indeed I can speak in the plural number,more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)