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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Chuang-tzu

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

10.

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

Sir William Osler

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

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

Mark Twain

13.

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

Thomas Carlyle

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Cioran, E. M.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Mann, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

31.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

32.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

33.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

34.

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.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Hesse, Hermann

38.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Arendt, Hannah

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Walter Bagehot

44.

A long tongue shortens life.

45.

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

Moralia

46.