Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

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

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

Mark Twain

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Walter Bagehot

12.

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

Sir William Osler

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.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

18.

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

Tiberius

19.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

20.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

24.

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

Raphael, Frederic

25.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas Carlyle

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Cruise, Tom

30.

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

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

33.

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

34.

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

Noonan, Peggy

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

43.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

46.

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

Moralia

47.

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

48.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

49.

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

50.

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