Jean de la Bruyere Peak Quotations

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.