Speak Quotes
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I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.
Sarah Silverman
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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.
William H. Gass
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I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
Abraham Lincoln
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All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.
William Congreve
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What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.
Elsa Peretti
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The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
C. S. Lewis
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
William Shakespeare
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Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
William Lilly
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
John Calvin
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve
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Speak politely to an enraged dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Victor Hugo
