Speech Quotes

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Dan Quayle

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Jef I. Richards

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

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thomas Jefferson

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Charles M. de Talleyrand

A person's character is revealed by their speech

Greek proverb

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Karl Popper

Speech is the image of actions

Solon

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Lord Mansfield

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

Gustave Flaubert

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Alfred E. Neuman

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart

Peggy Noonan

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding

George Savile

Speech happens to not be his language

Madame de Stael

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal

Muriel Humphrey

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Bible

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Henry David Thoreau

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.