Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cato The Elder

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

26.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Cruise, Tom

33.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Demosthenes

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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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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Tiberius

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Sir William Osler

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

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

Moralia

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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