Motivational Quotes

Speech

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

- Bob Marley

Best Quotes about Speech

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Arendt, Hannah

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

10.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Seneca

13.

A long tongue shortens life.

14.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Tiberius

19.

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

Sophocles

20.

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

21.

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

Sir William Osler

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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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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

24.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

29.

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

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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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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

33.

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.

34.

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

Cioran, E. M.

35.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

36.

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

37.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

41.

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

Moralia

42.

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

Cruise, Tom

43.

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

Hesse, Hermann

45.

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 nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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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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