Best Quotes about Speech
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]
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Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
William Shakespeare
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Cruise, Tom
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Bacon, Francis
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
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
William Shakespeare
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
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hesse, Hermann
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
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
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 mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca
If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Cato The Elder
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
Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
Hubbard, Kin
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
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Syrus, Publilius
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 human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
William Shakespeare
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang-tzu
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid
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
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
Speech is always bolder than action.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
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
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Bismarck, Otto Von
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. Somerset Maugham
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Raphael, Frederic
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
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Cioran, E. M.
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.
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
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
Mann, Thomas
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
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
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
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
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
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]
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