Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Cruise, Tom

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Seneca

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Sir William Osler

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Cruise, Tom

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

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.

10.

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

Walter Bagehot

11.

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

12.

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

Cato The Elder

13.

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

Demosthenes

15.

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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

17.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

18.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

Noonan, Peggy

20.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

A long tongue shortens life.

22.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

24.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Raphael, Frederic

26.

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

27.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

29.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sophocles

33.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

34.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

46.

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

Mark Twain

47.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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