Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“This unlettered man’s speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as “It will pay.” It suggests that the one great rule of composition—and if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on this—is, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)