Motivational Quotes

Speech

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Seneca

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Tiberius

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

Publilius Syrus

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Raphael, Frederic

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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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

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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

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

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

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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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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

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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

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

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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.

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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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A long tongue shortens life.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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