- Quotes by Paul Simon
“And the sign said, “The words of the prophets, and written on the subway walls, and tenement halls”,and whispered in the sounds of silence.” - Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
“Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow, for that surely is a great and blessed invention. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible; and don’t sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure mymind against his.”
- Quotes by William Shakespeare
“But words are words; I never yet did hear, that the bruis’d heart was pierced through the ear. speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate; and give thy worst of thoughts, the worst of words.” - Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
“There is a southern proverb-fine words butter no parsnips.” - Quotes by Johann Christoph
“What’s the short meaning of this long harangue?“ - Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon
“He spoke with homicidal eloquence, keeping the game alive with genial and well-judged jokes.” - Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
“You get the impression that their normal condition is silence and that speech is a slight fever which attacks them now and then.”
Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Christoph, Language Words And Speech, Paul Simon, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare
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