William Shakespeare on Speech
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“Your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable.”
“I would be loath to cast away my speech, for besides that it is excellently well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it.”
“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible, Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen Above the sense of sense; so sensible Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.”
“Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.”