Quote by Talleyrand

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

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

— Charles Maurice De 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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

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

— Robert South

“Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.”

— Rossana Condoleo

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

— Robert South

“Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

“Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.”

— George Eliot

“It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all…

— Thomas Merton