“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

— Peter Rollins

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British writer 1973

Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 214.

“Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him, with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Discourse
Essays (1625)

“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“One must speak about serious things seriously.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)
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“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

Pt II, p. 217
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“We have praised Taslima for speaking for Muslim women who do not have many spokesmen in the Muslim world. But her real glory is that she has also spoken for the persecuted Hindus in her country - for whom no one speaks, not even the Hindus.”

Taslima Nasrin (1962) Poet, columnist, novelist

Ram Swarup, Woman in Islam, 2000

“We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”

Hesiod Greek poet

We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
We know how to tell many lies that pass for truth, and we know, when we wish, to tell the truth itself.
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), lines 27–28. Variant translations:

“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

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