Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

- Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

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

Mark Twain

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

Demosthenes

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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 always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

31.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A long tongue shortens life.

33.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Cato The Elder

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sir William Osler

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

William Shakespeare

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