Motivational Quotes

Speech

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

11.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

13.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

14.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Cato The Elder

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Tiberius

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Sir William Osler

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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

32.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Moralia

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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

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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 of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Sophocles