Motivational Quotes

Speech

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

- Bob Marley

Best Quotes about Speech

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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.

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

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

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

Demosthenes

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

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

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

William Shakespeare

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Walter Bagehot

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

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

16.

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

Tiberius

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hesse, Hermann

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

25.

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

26.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

27.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

A long tongue shortens life.

32.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

33.

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

Noonan, Peggy

34.

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

Moralia

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

36.

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

37.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

38.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

39.

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

40.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

41.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

43.

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

Sir William Osler

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

47.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

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

49.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

50.

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