A Quote by Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

Olivia Colman

Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

James Kenneth Stephen

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Glenn Greenwald

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

Sam Horn

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Thomas E. Mann

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Thiruvalluvar

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

Jim Hightower

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

Carrie Brownstein

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

T. S. Eliot

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Muir

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

America Ferrera

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

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