Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to…

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

— Robert South

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

— Lucretius

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

— Chris Abani

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

— John Napier

“Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts.”

— Talleyrand

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

— Matthew Arnold

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't…

— Chris Abani

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

— Marshall McLuhan

“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is…

— Augustine of Hippo

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

— William Osler

“Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she’d given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger, to her…

— G.A. Aiken

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the…

— Patrick Henry

If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its…

— Newt Gingrich

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

— Martin Luther