Avoiding Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Friends have a way of speaking without words.

— Alice Dalgliesh

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

— Alice Dalgliesh

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

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.

— Gautama Buddha

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

— C. S. Lewis

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

“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 hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley