Motivational Quotes

Speech

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Hesse, Hermann

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tiberius

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Sophocles

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Fallaci, Oriana

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

William Shakespeare

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

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A long tongue shortens life.

24.

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

Demosthenes

25.

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

26.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]

Bible

27.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

28.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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.

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Noonan, Peggy

37.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

38.

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

Sir William Osler

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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Cruise, Tom

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

Moralia

41.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

45.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Mann, Thomas

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

Walter Bagehot

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.