Speech Acts

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:

    Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Each your doing,
    So singular in each particular,
    Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,
    That all your acts are queens.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)