speech (n.)
- address
- alliteration
- allocution
- allusion
- anacoluthon
- anadiplosis
- analogy
- anaphora
- anastrophe
- answer
- antiphrasis
- antithesis
- apophasis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- articulation
- blast
- catachresis
- chiasmus
- circumlocution
- climax
- commerce
- communicating
- communication
- communion
- composition
- confab
- confabulation
- congress
- connection
- contact
- conversation
- converse
- conversion
- correspondence
- dealing
- dealings
- debate
- declamation
- dialect
- dialogue
- diatribe
- diction
- discourse
- disquisition
- duologue
- ecphonesis
- elocution
- emphasis
- enunciation
- eulogy
- exchange
- exclamation
- exhortation
- expression
- filibuster
- formulation
- gemination
- grammar
- harangue
- homily
- hypallage
- hyperbaton
- hyperbole
- idiom
- inaugural
- information
- interaction
- interchange
- intercommunication
- intercommunion
- intercourse
- interplay
- interrogative
- interrogatory
- invective
- inversion
- irony
- jargon
- jeremiad
- language
- lecture
- line
- lingo
- lingua
- lingual
- litotes
- locution
- malapropism
- meiosis
- message
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- oral
- oration
- oxymoron
- palaver
- paregmenon
- parenthesis
- parlance
- parley
- parole
- periphrasis
- peroration
- personification
- philippic
- phrase
- phraseology
- phrasing
- pitch
- pleonasm
- preterition
- prolepsis
- questioning
- reading
- recital
- recitation
- regression
- repetition
- reply
- response
- rhetoric
- said
- salutatory
- sarcasm
- say
- screed
- sermon
- simile
- similitude
- speaking
- spiel
- spoonerism
- syllepsis
- symploce
- synecdoche
- talk
- talking
- telepathy
- tirade
- tongue
- touch
- traffic
- truck
- usage
- utterance
- valediction
- valedictory
- verbalization
- verbiage
- vernacular
- vocal
- vocalization
- voice
- voicing
- wording
- words
- zeugma
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as 'I should not have thought of it.'"
Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.
Mend your speech a little,
Lest it may mar your fortunes.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
The poetry of speech.
"Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
My very noble and approv'd good masters,
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
It is most true; true, I have married her:
The very head and front of my offending
Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
Their dearest action in the tented field,
And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
Of my whole course of love.
Though I be rude in speech.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.
Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
