Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

- Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Syrus, Publilius

A long tongue shortens life.

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

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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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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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Seneca

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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 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

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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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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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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Moralia

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Demosthenes

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

Tiberius

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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.