Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Speech

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

10.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

11.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Sir William Osler

12.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

14.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

15.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

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Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

18.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Syrus, Publilius

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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]

Bible

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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Simmons, Charles

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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Caine, Michael

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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Campbell, Patrick

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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Wilder, Thornton

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

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It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

36.

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

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How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

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The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

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For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul