Cease Quote by William Hazlitt

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

— William Hazlitt

We often show off our command of language best when we say nothing.

— Vikrant Parsai

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but…

— Jean de la Bruyere

When we turn around and come face to face with our destiny, we discover that spoken words are not enough. I know so many…

— Anonymous

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

— ZZ Packer

We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

— Theodore Zeldin

No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I…

— Jackie Chan

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and…

— Joseph Joubert

Doing is the evolution of saying.

— Bill Loguidice