Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Speech

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

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

Sir William Osler

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

13.

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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

21.

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

22.

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

Cruise, Tom

23.

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

24.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Hesse, Hermann

27.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Moralia

29.

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

30.

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

Mann, Thomas

31.

A long tongue shortens life.

32.

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

Arendt, Hannah

33.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

37.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Cioran, E. M.

40.

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

Thomas Carlyle

41.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

42.

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

Hubbard, Kin

43.

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

Proverb, Arabian

44.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

45.

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

Raphael, Frederic

46.

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

47.

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

Tiberius

48.

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

Noonan, Peggy

49.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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

Demosthenes

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