SPEECH SPEECH
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
They think that they shall be heard for their
much speaking.
Matthew. VI. 7.
Out of the abundance of the" heart the mouth
speaketh.
Matthew. XII. 34.
Though his tongue
Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse
appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 112.
When Adam first of men,
To first of women Eve, thus moving speech,
Turn'd him all ear to hear new utterance flow.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 408.
Faire de la prose sans le savoir.
To speak prose without knowing it.
Moltere—Bourgeois Gentilhomme. II. 6.
Quand on se fait entendre, on parle toujours bien,
Et tous vos beaux dictons ne servent de rien.
When- we are understood, we always speak
well, and then all your fine diction serves no
purpose.
Moliere—Les Femmes Sauantes. II. 6.
Je vous ferai un impromptu a loisir.
I shall make you an impromptu at my
leisure.
Moliere—Les Precieuses Ridicules. I. 12.
If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
To whom you speak, of whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
W. E. Norms—Thirlby Hall. Vol.1. P. 315.
Barbarus hie ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.
I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone.
Ovid—Tristia. Bk. V. 10. 37.
Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bieD de vous?
N'en dites point.
Do you wish people to speak well of you?
Then do not speak at all yourself.
Pascal—Pensées. VI. 59.
Verba toga? sequeris.
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
Persius—Satires. 5. 14.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato. See Plutarch—Life of Pericles.
Odiosa est oratio, cum rem agas, longinquum
loqui.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you
should despatch the business, to beat about
the bush.
Plautus—Mercator. III. 4. 23.
Verba facit mortuo.
He speaks to a dead man (i.e. wastes words).
Plautus—Pamulus. Act IV. 2. 18.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so
much as brevity.
Pliny the Younger—Epistles. Bk. I. 20.
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| text = <poem>Abstruse quastions must have abstruse answers.
Saying in Plutarch—Life of Alexander.
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| text = Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put
abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in
figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in
packs.
Plutarch—Life of Themistocles.
In their declamations and speeches they made
use of words to veil and muffle their design.
Plutarch—On Hearing. V. (Of the Sophists.)
| seealso = (See also Voltaire)
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| text = <poem>And empty heads console with empty sound.
| author = Pope
| work = Dunciad.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 542.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Proverbs. XV. 1.
Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque
mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris,
quae quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam
dicendi facilitate.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and
Architect of the world, has impressed man with
no character so proper to distinguish him from
other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian—De Institutions Oratoria. II.
17. 2.
II ne rend que monosyllables. Je croy qu'il
feroit d'une cerise trois morceaux.
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. V. Ch. XXVIII.
Man lernt Verschwiegenheit am meisten unter
Menschen, die Keine haben—und Plauderhaftigheit unter Verschwiegenen.
One learns taciturnity best among people
who have none, and loquacity among the
taciturn. ,
Jean Paul Richter—Hesperus. XII.
Speak after the manner of men.
Romans. VI. 19.
Was ist der langen Rede kurzer Sinn?
What is the short meaning of this long
harangue?
Schiller—Piccolomini. I. 2. 160.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Scott—Marmion. Canto II. Introduction.
Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.
Men's conversation is like their life.
Seneca—Epistoke Ad LucUium. 114.
