Motivational Quotes

Speech

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Mann, Thomas

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

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

10.

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

Cruise, Tom

11.

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

Moralia

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Seneca

14.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Noonan, Peggy

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

20.

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

Walter Bagehot

21.

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

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Hesse, Hermann

25.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

26.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

27.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Tiberius

36.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Chuang-tzu

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

45.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

46.

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