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Speech
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Best Quotes about Speech
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Jefferson, Thomas
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
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Raphael, Frederic
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
William Shakespeare
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Bacon, Francis
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
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
If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Bob Marley
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Whitehead, Alfred North
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
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Syrus, Publilius
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
William Shakespeare
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
Speech is always bolder than action.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
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
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Arendt, Hannah
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.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Noonan, Peggy
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hesse, Hermann
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius
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
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Cato The Elder
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
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
William Shakespeare
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Proverb, Arabian
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
I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang-tzu
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
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
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
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
Thought is the fountain of speech.
Chrysippus
A long tongue shortens life.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
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
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
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