Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

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

William Shakespeare

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

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

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

Sir William Osler

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

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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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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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

21.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Raphael, Frederic

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Moralia

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

Demosthenes

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Noonan, Peggy

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A long tongue shortens life.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas