Disguise Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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 employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

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

— Robert South

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

— Talleyrand

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

— Thomas Carlyle

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