“When a tongue at the wrong moment shoots off sharp-pointed words to rouse and hurt the spirit, speech may well soothe speech.”
Source: The Suppliants, lines 446–447 (tr. Christopher Collard)
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ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BCRelated quotes
“Hush your tongues from idle speech.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 146
Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
A Plea For Free Speech in Boston (10 December 1860), as contained in Words That Changed America https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1461748917, Alex Barnett, Rowman & Littlefield (reprint, 2006), p. 156 <br class="br">1860s
“Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Context: Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”
Margaret Atwood book Surfacing
Source: Surfacing
“The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994