Certain Quote by Judith Butler

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the…

— Edward Albee

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely…

— William Hazlitt

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can…

— Jurgen Habermas

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex.…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest…

— Gustave Flaubert

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

Speech is the mirror of action.

— Solon

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

Speech is the image of actions

— Anonymous