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

- Pinter, Harold

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Witherspoon

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

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

Wayne, John

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

Billings, Josh

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bible

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Ford, John

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

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

Osler, Sir William

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

White, Somers

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

White, R. S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Italian

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pascal, Blaise

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

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