Speech Quotes
31 quotations about Speech
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Speech is always bolder than action.
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
Speech is the mirror of action.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
Authors on Speech
Arabian Proverb
Francis Bacon
Otto Von Bismarck
Thomas Carlyle
Cato The Elder
E. M. Cioran
Tom Cruise
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Hansell B. Duckett
Hermann Hesse
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Jefferson
George Meredith
Peggy Noonan
Frederic Raphael
Antoine Rivarol
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
George Bernard Shaw
Solon
Robert Louis Stevenson