Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Cruise, Tom

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Cato The Elder

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Tiberius

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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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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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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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 always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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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 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

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Sophocles

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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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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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A long tongue shortens life.

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Demosthenes