5 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Speech

Thomas Carlyle quotes on speech

1. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

9. A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.

28. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

51. 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.

58. 'The people may eat grass': hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable-and will send back tidings.