Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Speech

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Tiberius

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

Demosthenes

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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

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

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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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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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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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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Raphael, Frederic

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A long tongue shortens life.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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.

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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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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Moralia

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

Sir William Osler

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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.