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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles
Speech Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Speech

1.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Cioran, E. M.

2.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
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

4.
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Cruise, Tom

5.
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. Somerset Maugham

6.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
Maugham, W. Somerset

7.
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

8.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal

9.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Arendt, Hannah

10.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Noonan, Peggy

11.
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

12.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Rorty, Richard

13.
Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
Fallaci, Oriana

14.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Whitehead, Alfred North

15.
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
William Shakespeare

16.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

18.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Melville, Herman

19.
Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.
William Shakespeare

20.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

21.
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

22.
I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
William Shakespeare

23.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett

24.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Jefferson, Thomas

25.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hesse, Hermann

26.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Sir William Osler

27.
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau

28.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Cato The Elder

29.
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

30.
The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.
Ball, Patricia Ann

31.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius

32.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

33.
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
William Shakespeare

34.
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

35.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang-tzu

36.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.
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

38.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot

39.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Raphael, Frederic

40.
Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
Hubbard, Kin

41.
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
William Shakespeare

42.
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

43.
I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

44.
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare

45.
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
Aitkins, Eileen

46.
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
Mann, Thomas

47.
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

48.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

49.
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid

50.
Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
William Shakespeare


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