Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Proverb, Arabian

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Arendt, Hannah

10.

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

Moralia

11.

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

Mann, Thomas

12.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

18.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

19.

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

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

21.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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A long tongue shortens life.

30.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

34.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

41.

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

Sir William Osler

42.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

43.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

44.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

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

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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

50.

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

Tiberius