Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Raphael, Frederic

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

12.

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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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Demosthenes

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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A long tongue shortens life.

36.

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

Cato The Elder

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Walter Bagehot

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Seneca

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cruise, Tom

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

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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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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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