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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Speech |
| Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians, Chap. iv. Ver. 6. | 1 |
| A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 2. (Hamlet to Rosencrantz.) | 2 |
| Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much—your hand thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince and certain Players.) | 3 |
| O, it offends me to the soul, to see a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I could have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant; it outherods Herod; pray you, avoid it. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince to the Players.) | 4 |
| Where Nature’s end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal the mind. Dr. Young.—Sat. II. Line 207. (To Chesterfield.) | 5 |
| The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Goldsmith.—The Bee, No. 3. | 6 |
| They only employ words for the purpose of concealing their thoughts. Voltaire.—Le Chapon et la Poulard. | 7 |
| Speech is the index of the mind. Seneca.—Epi. 1, near the end. | 8 |
| Speech is silvern, Silence is golden. German Proverb.—T. Carlyle phrases it—Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden.—Sartor Resartus. Ch. III. Bk. 3. | 9 |
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