Speech Quotes

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse—German.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Let no man write my epitaph…When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

Vive la différence, mais vive l'entente cordiale. Long live the difference, but long live the Entente Cordiale.

I for one believe that there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.

In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an ‘annus horribilis’.

I think everybody really will concede that on this, of all days, I should begin my speech with the words ‘My husband and I’.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

I will make you shorter by the head.

In trust I have found treason.

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.

Speech impelled us
To purify the dialect of the tribe.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Reden ist Silber. Schweigen ist Gold.