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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Whitehead, Alfred North
Speech Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Speech

1.
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.
William Shakespeare

2.
I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
William Shakespeare

3.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Syrus, Publilius

4.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

5.
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

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
Maugham, W. Somerset

10.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon

11.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

12.
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

13.
Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
William Shakespeare

14.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Proverb, Arabian

15.
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia

16.
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

17.
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau

18.
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare

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.
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

21.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang-tzu

22.
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

23.
Men of few words are the best men.
William Shakespeare

24.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles

25.
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Cruise, Tom

26.
Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
Seneca

27.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Jefferson, Thomas

28.
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

29.
I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

30.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Arendt, Hannah

31.
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
William Shakespeare

32.
A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

33.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius

34.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett

35.
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

36.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Noonan, Peggy

38.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Bacon, Francis

39.
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.

40.
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
William Shakespeare

41.
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

42.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca

43.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli

44.
If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

45.
A long tongue shortens life.

46.
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

47.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

48.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Whitehead, Alfred North

49.
Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.
William Shakespeare

50.
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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