Sentence examples for we could speak from inspiring English sources

"We could speak either way.

Where we could speak freely.

We could speak about lost things".

All we could speak about was Michael.

Incredibly, they abandoned their office so that we could speak alone to their captives.

Lots of English in these episodes, to confuse us all into thinking we could speak Danish.

In a gnomic maxim, Wittgenstein later said: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him".

The great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said: "If a lion could speak, we couldn't understand him".

More recently, Wittgenstein memorably summarised the gulf between animal "forms of life" and ours: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him".

"If a lion could speak, we would not understand him," wrote the great Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations.

I wondered if he might mention Wittgenstein's dictum: if a lion could speak, we would not understand him.