Spoken
of Speak
Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
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Spoken Quotations
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
Spoken Translations
spoken in German is geredet, gesprochen, sprechend
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