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

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Sophocles

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

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

A long tongue shortens life.

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

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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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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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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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Tiberius

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

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

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

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Mark Twain

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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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I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut 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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Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

Belson, Rami

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

Cioran, E. M.

47.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Demosthenes