Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
Half wits talk much, but say little.
Franklin, Benjamin
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Montesquieu, Charles 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.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Pilgrim, Peace
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Hansen, Mark Victor
Better never begin than never make an end.
Herbert, George
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
Humes, James
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
Proverb, Italian
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Proverb
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Franklin, Benjamin
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Proverb, German
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Wilde, Oscar
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
Peale, Norman Vincent
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence
Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Ogden, Tom
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
Walters, Lily
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Twain, Mark
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Landers, Ann
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Billings, Josh
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Pinter, Harold
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
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
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Proverb, Chinese
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Carlyle, Thomas
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Carnegie, Dale
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
Proverb, Greek
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
Mirabeau, Comte De
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Proverb, Spanish
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
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.
Too many of us speak twice before we think
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
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Lewis, Joe E.
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
Phelps, C. C.
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Saying
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Osler, Sir William
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