Motivational Quotes

Speech

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Speech

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

A long tongue shortens life.

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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

William Shakespeare

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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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

19.

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

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

21.

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

Mann, Thomas

22.

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

Sophocles

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

Demosthenes

26.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Noonan, Peggy

29.

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

30.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

31.

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

32.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

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

Moralia

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

40.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

41.

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

Tiberius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sir William Osler

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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.