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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834)
- Genius
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834), Quotation.
- Quotations
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow1857–1938
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man’s speech with other men’s jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
Robertson Davies1913–1995Dangerous Jewels (1960)
- Quotations
It is mankind’s discovery of language which more than any other single thing has separated him from the animal creation.
Robertson Davies1913–1995On Seeing Plays (1990).
- Animals
Denial of one’s better self seals the lips or pollutes them. Fidelity to conviction opens them and truth blossoms in eloquence.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Secret of Efficient Expression (1911)
- Truth & Lies
Not to put too fine a point upon it
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XIIn context
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881
- Debate
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881The Young Duke (1831), Book I, Chapter 6.
- Comedy
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part 1, Chapter 5 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1918)In context
- Intelligence
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895A Plea For Free Speech in Boston (10 December 1860), as contained in Words That Changed America, Alex Barnett, Rowman & Littlefield (reprint, 2006), p. 156
- Freedom
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
- Debate
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
HDHansell B. Duckett
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Often credited to Dale Carnegie
- Debate