Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or style:
“Good speech need not be behind other’s backs; speech behind other’s backs is not good.”
—Chinese proverb.
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)