Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

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

Sophocles

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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A long tongue shortens life.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Moralia

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Walter Bagehot

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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 an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

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

Sir William Osler

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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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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

38.

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

Raphael, Frederic

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

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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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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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