Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Speech

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

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Sophocles

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

Arendt, Hannah

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

Demosthenes

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chuang-tzu

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Raphael, Frederic

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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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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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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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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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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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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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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

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

Sir William Osler

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.