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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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Best Quotes about Speech

1.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Raphael, Frederic

2.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

3.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Bacon, Francis

4.
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

5.
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.

6.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Sir William Osler

7.
I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
William Shakespeare

8.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Syrus, Publilius

9.
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

10.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Cato The Elder

11.
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

12.
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare

13.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Proverb, Arabian

15.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Arendt, Hannah

16.
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau

17.
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

18.
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
William Shakespeare

19.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius

20.
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare

21.
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca

22.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

23.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia

25.
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

26.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

27.
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.

28.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras

29.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Bismarck, Otto Von

30.
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. Somerset Maugham

31.
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
William Shakespeare

32.
Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
Hubbard, Kin

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang-tzu

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon

40.
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

41.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca

42.
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
William Shakespeare

43.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus

44.
I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

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.
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

47.
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

48.
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
William Shakespeare

49.
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
Mann, Thomas

50.
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


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