Say quotes, sayings ,qutotes
Asch Sholem 1880-1957
It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending sit down.
Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832
Lacon
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Coolidge Calvin 1872-1933
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Eagleton Professor Terry 1943
Philosophy, Wittgenstein considered, could say something, but nothing that was really important.
Eliot George 1819-1880
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Ford Gerald
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
France Anatole 1844-1924
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Hemingway Ernest 1899-1961
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Longworth Alice Roosevelt
(attributed)
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
O'Keefe Patrick 1872-1934
(slogan for the Society of American Florists)
Say it with flowers.
Pierce Lorne
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
Robinson Edwin Arlington 1869-1935
‘John Brown'
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Selden John 1584-1654
Table Talk ‘Preaching'
Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King Lear
The worst is not,
So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.'
Skelton John c.1460-1529
The Bouge of Court
The sovereign'st thing that any man may have
Is little to say, and much to hear and see.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
Tacitus AD. c.56-c.117
Histories
These times having the rare good fortune that you may think what you like and say what you think.
Taylor Henry
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Van Gogh Vincent 1853-1890
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.
Voltaire 1694-1778
(attributed)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Wellington Duke of 1769-1852
(advice to a new MP)
Don't quote Latin; say what you have to say, and then sit down.
Whately Richard 1787-1863
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.