Famous quotes containing the word speak:
“There were none of the small deer up there; they are more common about the settlements. One ran into the city of Bangor two years before, and jumped through a window of costly plate glass, and then into a mirror, where it thought it recognized one of its kind.... This the inhabitants speak of as the deer that went a-shopping.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We endeavour more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in mens mouths, in what manner soever. It seemeth that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other mens keeping.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldnt speak a single word that doesnt come straight from his heart.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (16221673)