Candor Quote by Thomas Otway

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

— Sebastian Horsley

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

— Thomas Carlyle

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

— Ernest Hemingway

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak…

— William Shakespeare

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be…

— Noah Levine

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

— Seneca the Younger