Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

3.

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

Sophocles

4.

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

Seneca

5.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

6.

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

7.

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

8.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

9.

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.

10.

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

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

Walter Bagehot

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

14.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

15.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Noonan, Peggy

31.

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

Tiberius

32.

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

33.

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

Sir William Osler

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare