Inarticulate Quote by Plutarch

“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes…

— Charles Spurgeon

“In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.”

— Diane Setterfield

“And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that…

— Dava Sobel

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He…

— Katherine Addison

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he…

— Elizabeth Musser

“Within him something bade to cry out. He had the impulse to make a rallying speech, to sing a battle hymn, but he could…

— Stephen Crane

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

— Plutarch

“Because lascivious or venal lips had murmured the same words to him, he now had little belief in their sincerity when he heard them…

— gustave flaubert

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

— John Milton