Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

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

Sir William Osler

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Moralia

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

Chuang-tzu

18.

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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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

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

William Shakespeare

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

25.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Cruise, Tom

31.

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.

32.

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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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

34.

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

35.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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A long tongue shortens life.

37.

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

Tiberius

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Mann, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

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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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

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

Mark Twain