Famous quotes containing the word speak:
“Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men -
Come I to speak in Caesars funeral.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my lifeI wrote this some years agothat were worth the postage.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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