Motivational Quotes

Speech

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Speech

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Demosthenes

12.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

14.

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

Raphael, Frederic

15.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

25.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

26.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Moralia

34.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

40.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

41.

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

Arendt, Hannah

42.

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

43.

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

44.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

46.

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

Chuang-tzu

47.

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

Hansell B. Duckett