Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Mark Twain

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

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Seneca

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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A long tongue shortens life.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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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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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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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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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Sophocles