Top 100 Speak Well Quotes
#1. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
Stanley Kubrick
#2. When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.
Plutarch
#3. Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
Camillus De Lellis
#4. Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.
Joan Bauer
#5. It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#6. There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.
Ted Cruz
#8. Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.
Scott Westerfeld
#9. I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
Malaika Arora Khan
#10. While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
Amy Tan
#11. It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
#12. Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.
William Poundstone
#13. While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.
Saint Francis De Sales
#14. To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#15. To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
#17. Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;
when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it.
Voltaire
#19. Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
Herman Melville
#20. One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
Norman Mailer
#21. His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
William Shakespeare
#22. This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.
Shams Tabrizi
#23. Speak well of the law. Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself. I give you that advice
Charles Dickens
#24. The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
Richard Paul Evans
#25. When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
Euripides
#26. The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
Dale Carnegie
#27. I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
Roberto Cavalli
#28. I don't speak well as the pictures in my head do. I can't... fully... the possibilities... It's too much to explain all at once. It would be world-changing.
Liz Braswell
#30. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
Mother Teresa
#31. For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius
#32. It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#33. Do you wish people to speak well of you?
Then do not speak at all yourself.
[Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous?
N'en dites point.]
Blaise Pascal
#34. The world belongs to those who know how to speak well, and fortunes are made by those who write well,
V.C. Andrews
#35. A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.
Blaise Pascal
#36. In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#37. Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#38. It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Jean De La Bruyere
#39. Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Ben Jonson
#41. Humphrey finds everybody charming I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself.
George Eliot
#43. If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
Alistair Begg
#44. It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
#45. There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal
#46. Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
John French Sloan
#47. The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.
Plato
#48. Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
Jonah Goldberg
#49. The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.
Denis De Rougemont
#50. It did not speak well of the power of God, in other words, if He needed a human government to prop him up.
Jon Meacham
#51. Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last - and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#52. The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
#53. To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
Bridget Of Sweden
#54. I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers
#55. When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
Moliere
#56. We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
#58. The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#59. When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.
Haskell Wexler
#60. My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
Jamie Foxx
#61. When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
Dogen
#62. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
#63. It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
Jean De La Bruyere
#64. There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
Ian MacKaye
#65. I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#66. I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen
#67. What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
Desiderius Erasmus
#68. If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.
Henri Nouwen
#69. I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
Bruce Dickinson
#70. We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Moliere
#71. In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well.
Tom Robbins
#72. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
#73. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#74. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.
Nick Cave
#75. My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
Steven Seagal
#76. I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am ...
Jesse Ventura
#77. Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating
#78. Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#79. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English ... ?
Chris Cleave
#80. Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75
Chris Bohjalian
#81. Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
George Eliot
#82. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
Lupita Nyong'o
#83. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
Tamora Pierce
#84. If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.
T.K. Naliaka
#85. It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
Jay-Z
#86. O Chid learn your ABZ's and memorize them well,
and you shall learn to talk and speak and read and write and spel
Shel Silverstein
#87. Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their behalf ensuring their well-being and lives are respected and protected.
Sylvia Dolson
#88. We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
Norman Mailer
#89. Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
Keira Knightley
#90. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.
Candace Bushnell
#91. Feed them as is hungry, clothe them as is naked, and speak up for them as has no voices'? Well,
Terry Pratchett
#92. Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.
Kathy Reichs
#93. Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.
Hank Williams III
#94. Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
#95. The man chuckled. "You would do well to speak kindly of her. She will be your Queen before long.
"Over my dead body," Rose snapped.
Brandi Gillilan
#96. Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon - but of these things I must not now speak.
H.P. Lovecraft
#97. I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.
Hassan Blasim
#98. You can become proficient with a computer. You can become a terrific negotiator or a super salesperson. You can learn to speak in public. You can learn to write effectively and well. These are all skills you can acquire as soon as you decide to and make them a priority. Three
Brian Tracy
#99. My whole life long I learn'd to love,
This hour my utmost art I prove.
And speak my passion - heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!
Robert Browning
#100. I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.
Jon Spaihts
