Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956
“Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946) German general
Last words, 10/16/46, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002
“How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Burns.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”
Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ
Book I, ch. 20.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Intellectual in America”, p. 5
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) Prussian Field Marshal
Waldersee in November, 1877, as quoted by Gordon Alexander Craig, "Germany, 1866-1945" (Oxford University Press, 1978) p.133
