Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

Moralia

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

8.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

9.

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

Tiberius

10.

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

11.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

12.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Cato The Elder

16.

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

Noonan, Peggy

17.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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.

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

Demosthenes

22.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

Cruise, Tom

25.

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

Thomas Carlyle

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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.

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

30.

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

31.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

32.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

33.

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

34.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Mann, Thomas

39.

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

Mark Twain

40.

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

Cioran, E. M.

41.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

43.

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

Sir William Osler

44.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

45.

A long tongue shortens life.

46.

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

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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

Raphael, Frederic

50.

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

Publilius Syrus