Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Raphael, Frederic

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cruise, Tom

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Noonan, Peggy

10.

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

Tiberius

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

Raphael, Frederic

12.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Chuang-tzu

14.

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

Sophocles

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Seneca

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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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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

25.

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

Moralia

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

Publilius Syrus

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Demosthenes

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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

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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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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 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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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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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Sir William Osler

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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.