SPEECH SPEECH
Revenons a nos moutons.
To return to the subject. (lit. "to our mutton.")
Pierre Blanchet—Pierre Pathelin. III. 2. Same used by Brueys in his L'Avocai Patelin (Mattre Patelin) which he says in the preface he took from Blanchet's play. Jacob's ed. in Reciieil de Farces Soties. P. 96 gives text as "Revenons a ces mouton." Pasquier—Recherches de la France gives "nos mouton." Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. III. 34. ("Retournous" for "Revenons.")
Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.
That which is repeated too often becomes
insipid and tedious.
Boileau—L'Art Po&ique. I. 61.
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Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. Book of Common Prayer. Solemnization of Matrimony.
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For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 669.
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Butler—The Modern Politician.
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| text = <poem>His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 174.
Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprhne.
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. Campistron—Pompeia. XI. 5.
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Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Carlyle—A Swiss Inscription. Quoted in Sartor Resartus. Bk. III. Ch. III.
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Carlyle—Essays. Biography.
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Sermo hominum mores et eclat et indicat idem. The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Dionysius Cato—Distkha de Moribus ad FUium. Bk. IV. 26.
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Churchill—The Rosiad. L. 322.
Ipse dixit.
He himself has said it.
Quoted by Cicero—De Nat. Deorum. I. 5, 10 as the unreasoning answer given by Pythagoras.
Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.
Sir Edward Coke. Institutes.
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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt. Colossians. IV. 6.
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But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge.
II Corinthians. XI. 6.
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| text = <poem>Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
II Corinthians. III. 12.
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Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. Dante—Purgatorio. XI. 118.
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Think all you speak; but speak not all you
think: Thoughts are your own; your words are so no
more. Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you
sink: Lips never err, when she does keep the door. Delaune—Epigram.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes.
That's a Blazing strange answer.
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express
With painful care, but seeming easiness;
For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon—Essay on Translated
Verse. L. 216.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. Benj. Disraeu—Maiden Speech in the House of Commons. (1837)
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. Benj. Disraeu—Speech at the Riding School. London, July 27, 1878. (Of Gladstone.)
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A series of congratulatory regrets.
Benj. Disuaeli—July 30, 1878. In reference
to Lord Harrington's resolution on the Berlin
Treaty.
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The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benj. Disraeli—Speech at Guildhall. London, November 9, 1878.
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Miss not the discourse of the elders Ecclemasticus. VIII. 9
