Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tiberius

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

Cato The Elder

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

10.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

15.

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

Cioran, E. M.

16.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

A long tongue shortens life.

22.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Cruise, Tom

25.

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

Demosthenes

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

Hesse, Hermann

28.

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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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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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

31.

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

Mark Twain

32.

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

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

Noonan, Peggy

35.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

41.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

42.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Raphael, Frederic

44.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

45.

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

46.

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

Publilius Syrus

47.

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

48.

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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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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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare