Voice

Voice is the sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, and other controlled sounds emanating from the mouth.

Quotes

• The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
  An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XV, Stanza 13.

• His voice no touch of harmony admits,
  Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.
  The two extremes appear like man and wife
  Coupled together for the sake of strife.
  • Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 1,003.

• If there was a lot of emotion in my voice today, it's because we've all been waiting for this day for a long time. It felt so great, … the people at this company are doing the best work of their lives, the best work that Apple has ever done.
  • Tim Cook, usatoday.com.

• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
  So charming left his voice, that he awhile
  Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 1.

• The Buddha preaches the Law with a single voice,
  but each living being understands it in his own way.
  • Ratnākara in Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I, as translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.

• I thank you for your voices: thank you:
  Your most sweet voices.
  • William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 179.

• Her voice was ever soft,
  Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 272.

• But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.
  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act I, scene 2, line 83.

• He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
  The deep vibrations of his witching song.
  • James Thomson, Castle of Indolence (1748), Canto I, Stanza 20.

• Vox faucibus hæsit.
  • My voice stuck in my throat.
  • Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 774; III. 48; IV. 280.

Bible

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• His voice was as the sound of many waters.
  • John the Evangelist on God, Book of Revelation 1:15.

• A still, small voice.
  • I Kings 19:12.

• Vōx clāmantis in dēsertō.
• The voice of one crying out in the desert.
  • Gospel of Matthew 3:3, Vulgate.
    • The voice of one crying in the wilderness.
    • Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3, Luke 3:4 John 1:23. KJV

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 840-41.

• Her voice changed like a bird's:
  There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
  • Robert Browning, Flight of the Duchess, Stanza 15.

• He ceased: but left so charming on their ear
  His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Book II, line 414. Pope's translation.

• The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
  As some soft chime had stroked the air;
  And though the sound had parted thence,
  Still left an echo in the sense.
  • Ben Jonson, Eupheme, IV.

• Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
  The innermost recesses of my spirit!
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, Part I. The Divine Tragedy. The First Passover, Part VI.

• Thy voice
  Is a celestial melody.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora, Part V.

• Her silver voice
  Is the rich music of a summer bird,
  Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry, line 55.

• How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
  It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
  It ravishes all senses.
  • Philip Massinger, The Old Law, Act IV, scene 2, line 34.

• A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et præterea nihil).
  • Plutarch, Laconic Apothegms. Credited to Lacon Incert, XIII, by Lipsius.

• Her voice was like the voice the stars
  Had when they sang together.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, Stanza 10.

• A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress only on what is deeply felt.
  • George Sand, Handsome Lawrence, Chapter III.

• Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.
  • The voice is nothing but beaten air.
  • Seneca the Younger, Naturalinum Quæstionum, Book II. 29.

• And rolling far along the gloomy shores
  The voice of days of old and days to be.
  • Alfred Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur.

• Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
  One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
  • William Wordsworth, Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland.