Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

2.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

3.

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

Cioran, E. M.

4.

A long tongue shortens life.

5.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

6.

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

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Arendt, Hannah

11.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

12.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Raphael, Frederic

15.

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

Walter Bagehot

16.

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

17.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

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

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

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

21.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

26.

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

27.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Demosthenes

29.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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.

40.

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

Cruise, Tom

41.

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

Moralia

42.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Noonan, Peggy

48.

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

Mann, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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