Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Demosthenes

15.

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

Chuang-tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mark Twain

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tiberius

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

Sir William Osler

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Moralia

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

Cruise, Tom

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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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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