Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
Taft, William Howard
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Pascal, Blaise
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Samuel, Herbert
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Carnegie, Dale
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Proverb, French
Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.
Phillips, H. L.
Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
White, R. S.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen
Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
Meyers, Gerald C.
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Saying
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Osler, Sir William
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Rogers, Will
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
Proverb, Greek
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Lewis, Joe E.
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
Gratton, Henry
Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
Chesterfield, Lord
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Proverb, Chinese
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Archbold, Ralph
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Meltzer, Bernard
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Mann, Thomas
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Wayne, John
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
Humes, James
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Too many of us speak twice before we think
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Wilde, Oscar
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Pinter, Harold
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Jonson, Ben
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Lamartine, Alphonse De
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Gracian, Baltasar
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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