Motivational Quotes

Speech

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

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Best Quotes about Speech

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

Sir William Osler

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

Hesse, Hermann

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.

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

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

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tiberius

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

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

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

18.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Arendt, Hannah

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Raphael, Frederic

25.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

26.

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

Seneca

27.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Cioran, E. M.

30.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

31.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

32.

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

33.

A long tongue shortens life.

34.

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

Thomas Carlyle

35.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

36.

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

37.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

46.

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

Walter Bagehot

47.

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

48.

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

Cruise, Tom

49.

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

Chuang-tzu

50.

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

Publilius Syrus