A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
Brian Eno

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Publilius Syrus

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.
Dom DeLuise

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
Joe Baca