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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

- Churchill, Winston

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Brooks, Van Wyck

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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

Osler, Sir William

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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