Speakes Quotes

#1. He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

George Herbert

#2. He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

George Herbert

#3. A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

George Herbert

#4. Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
[Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

George Herbert

#5. The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

George Herbert

#6. Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them they are not worth the search

William Shakespeare

#7. A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

George Herbert

#8. That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

Ronald Reagan

#9. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

George Herbert

#10. The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

George Herbert

#11. No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .

Adel Abouhana

#12. You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Larry Speakes

#13. If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

Larry Speakes

#14. Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

Grant Morrison

#15. What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Michel De Montaigne

#16. Ol' Shoot from the Lip, we call him.

Larry Speakes

#17. You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.

Carsten Stroud

#18. Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

Larry Speakes

#19. Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

Josh Billings

#20. I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.

Steve McQueen

#21. Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Larry Speakes

#22. Perhaps that is what love is
the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

Phyllis Rose

#23. Go tae your hands again ... let me give it tae you. Lachlain MacRieve

Kresley Cole

#24. I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Larry Speakes