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Speakers and speaking
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Cicero, Marcus T.
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Billings, Josh
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Proverb
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Pinter, Harold
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Proverb, Arabian
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
Chesterfield, Lord
Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Ogden, Tom
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Carlyle, Thomas
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
Phelps, C. C.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Proverb, Spanish
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
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Channing, William Ellery
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
Proverb, Italian
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Gracian, Baltasar
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Jonson, Ben
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Churchill, Winston
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
White, Somers
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Carnegie, Dale
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Cicero, Marcus T.
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
Mirabeau, Comte De
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Rogers, Will
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Franklin, Benjamin
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.
Mescon, Micheal
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Carnegie, Dale
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
Humes, James
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Mann, Thomas
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Montesquieu, Charles De
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.
There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.
Gregg
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Pascal, Blaise
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Saying
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Proverb, German
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