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| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. |
| Speech |
| Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch as a robe, or mantle, with a long train, is for a race. —Francis Bacon | 1 |
| Considered as the last finish of education, or of human culture, worth and acquirement, the art of speech is noble, and even divine; it is like the kindling of a Heaven’s light to show us what a glorious world exists, and has perfected itself, in a man. —Thomas Carlyle | 2 |
| As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish. —Demosthenes | 3 |
| Her artless speech, like chrystal, shows the thing it would hide, but only covers. —James Sheridan Knowles | 4 |
| Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;… that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. —Diogenes Laertius | 5 |
| A printed speech is like a dried flower: the substance, indeed, is there, but the color is faded and the perfume gone. —Prosper Lorain | 6 |
| Speech is like the cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure, while in thoughts they lie but in packs. —Plutarch | 7 |
| His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered. —William Shakespeare | 8 |
| Swift with speech like fire in fiery lands To melt the steel’s edge in the headsman’s hands. —Algernon Charles Swinburne | 9 |
| Speech was like to tapestry; and like it, when it was spread it showed its figures, but when it was folded up, hid and spoiled them. —Themistocles | 10 |
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