Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

2.

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

Sir William Osler

3.

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

4.

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

Hesse, Hermann

5.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

6.

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

Hubbard, Kin

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Walter Bagehot

9.

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Mark Twain

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Seneca

22.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

24.

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

Mann, Thomas

25.

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

Noonan, Peggy

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

29.

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

Tiberius

30.

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.

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

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

Chuang-tzu

33.

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

34.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Thomas Carlyle

36.

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

37.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

44.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

45.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

46.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

47.

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

Cruise, Tom

48.

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

49.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

50.

A long tongue shortens life.