I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
Children and fools always speak the truth
It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent