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Speakers and speaking
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Carnegie, Dale
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Proverb, Spanish
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Orben, Robert
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Gracian, Baltasar
Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
White, R. S.
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Beggs, Jim
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
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
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Lamartine, Alphonse De
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Montesquieu, Charles De
Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Ogden, Tom
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Churchill, Winston
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Proverb, German
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
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
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Carnegie, Dale
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
Sarton, May
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
Walters, Lily
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Proverb
Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
Mencken, H. L.
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
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
Hazlitt, William
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Half wits talk much, but say little.
Franklin, Benjamin
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Saying
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
White, Somers
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Carnegie, Dale
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Landers, Ann
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Too many of us speak twice before we think
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Pinter, Harold
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Herbert, George
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Gardner, Herbert
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb
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