Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sophocles

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

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Tiberius

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

Seneca

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

William Shakespeare

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Moralia

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

Demosthenes

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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

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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