First Speaks Quotes

2 First Speaks quotes by 2 unique authors

• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But. — Henry Ward Beecher
• There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey

Who Wrote These First Speaks Quotes

2 authors contributed a total of 2 First Speaks Quotes as follows:

• 1 First Speaks Quote by Thomas de Quincey
• 1 First Speaks Quote by Henry Ward Beecher