Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Sir William Osler

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

A long tongue shortens life.

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

Mark Twain

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

10.

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

Walter Bagehot

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

18.

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

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

Chuang-tzu

20.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Cruise, Tom

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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

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

27.

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

28.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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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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

34.

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

Noonan, Peggy

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Sophocles

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

45.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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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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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

48.

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

49.

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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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