Motivational Quotes

Speech

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

- Campbell, Patrick

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Moralia

11.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Raphael, Frederic

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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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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

Cato The Elder

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Walter Bagehot

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Sir William Osler

31.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Demosthenes

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Tiberius

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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

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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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.

Hoskins, John