Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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

Moralia

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

A long tongue shortens life.

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Walter Bagehot

18.

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

19.

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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

21.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Noonan, Peggy

24.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

25.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Publilius Syrus

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus