It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Minister: Public opinion has a way of changing.
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
And Mrs. Treaclebunny has promised to speak English from now on as well. In fact, she said when she goes to England, that's all she speaks anyway because the animals speak English there. She says anyone who has read children's books with animals in t...
One should speak a little with others and a lot with oneself.
Eat when the meal is ready, speak when the time is ripe.
The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
To set fire to a church is not so bad as to speak ill of a virgin.
Listen with both ears, but speak with only one tongue.
Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.” “So i...
[Harriet Johnson reads her letter to the Governor] Harriet Johnson: [quietly] To the honorable William J. LePetomaine, Governor... Townspeople: Louder! We can't hear you! Harriet Johnson: I'm not used to public speaking. [clears her throat] Harriet J...
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
