Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Sophocles

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Sir William Osler

A long tongue shortens life.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Demosthenes

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Tiberius

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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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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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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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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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

41.

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

Moralia

42.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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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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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Cruise, Tom