Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Speech

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Sir William Osler

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.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Men of few words are the best men.

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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cato The Elder

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

Walter Bagehot

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Demosthenes

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

William Shakespeare

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Cruise, Tom

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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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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Tiberius

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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.

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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A long tongue shortens life.

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

Seneca

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Raphael, Frederic

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mark Twain

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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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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis