Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Tiberius

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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

13.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Demosthenes

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Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.

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

Tiberius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cruise, Tom

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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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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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A long tongue shortens life.

40.

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

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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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