Avoiding Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and…

— Roy Hodgson

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

— Alice Dalgliesh

Friends have a way of speaking without words.

— Alice Dalgliesh

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe.…

— Rege-Jean Page

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I…

— Simon Schama

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as…

— Charlotte Lamb

I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely…

— Kathy Burke

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have…

— Christopher Walken

On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character out of…

— Forest Whitaker