Motivational Quotes

Speech

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

2.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

3.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

4.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Wilder, Thornton

5.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Simmons, Charles

6.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

7.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Tiberius

8.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

9.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

10.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

11.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

12.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

13.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

16.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Paz, Octavio

17.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

18.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

19.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

20.

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

21.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

23.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

24.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

26.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

27.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

28.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul

29.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

31.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

32.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

33.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

36.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

37.

A long tongue shortens life.

38.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

39.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

41.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

43.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

44.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

45.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Ball, Patricia Ann

46.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

47.

Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

48.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Caine, Michael

49.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

50.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus