Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Demosthenes

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

Seneca

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

A long tongue shortens life.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

10.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Goodman, Paul

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

Raphael, Frederic

16.

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

Sir William Osler

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

Mark Twain

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Moralia

21.

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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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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

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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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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Cato The Elder

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

Mann, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

46.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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