Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Seneca

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

14.

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

16.

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

Sir William Osler

17.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

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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

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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

23.

A long tongue shortens life.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

26.

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

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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

28.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

29.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

30.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

34.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Arendt, Hannah

39.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

40.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

43.

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

Walter Bagehot

44.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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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

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

Cato The Elder

49.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

Moralia