Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Billings, Josh

10.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

11.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

12.

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

Ford, John

13.

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

Madden, John

14.

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

Pinter, Harold

15.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

16.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

17.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

18.

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

19.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

20.

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

Osler, Sir William

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Horace

25.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

26.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

29.

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

White, R. S.

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Taft, William Howard

32.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Booher, Dianna

34.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

Bible

37.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

38.

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

Witherspoon

39.

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

40.

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

Phelps, C. C.

41.

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

Orben, Robert

42.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

43.

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