Motivational Quotes

Speech

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

William Shakespeare

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

10.

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

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Mann, Thomas

15.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

19.

A long tongue shortens life.

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

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

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

29.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Demosthenes

32.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

33.

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

34.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Cato The Elder

36.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

37.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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

40.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cruise, Tom

42.

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

Tiberius

43.

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

44.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

49.

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