Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Speech

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

William Shakespeare

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Mann, Thomas

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Cruise, Tom

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

Demosthenes

14.

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

15.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Thomas Carlyle

17.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Walter Bagehot

19.

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

Arendt, Hannah

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

32.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Chuang-tzu

35.

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

Mark Twain

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Hesse, Hermann

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

Proverb, Arabian