Motivational Quotes

Speech

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Speech

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

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

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

Sophocles

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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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 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

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

Sir William Osler

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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

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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 has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Moralia

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Publilius Syrus

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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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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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

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Demosthenes

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