Top Speech Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Speech quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Horace
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
- Horace
Collection: Speech
Image of T. Boone Pickens
A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
- T. Boone Pickens
Collection: Speech
Image of George Orwell
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
- George Orwell
Collection: Speech
Image of Robin Quivers
We shouldn't have free speech.
- Robin Quivers
Collection: Speech
Image of Ferdinand de Saussure
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
Collection: Speech
Image of Cato the Elder
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
- Cato the Elder
Collection: Speech
Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Collection: Speech
Image of Pindar
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
- Pindar
Collection: Speech
Image of Robert Southey
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.
- Robert Southey
Collection: Speech
Image of Washington Gladden
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
- Washington Gladden
Collection: Speech
Image of Edward Leigh
It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?
- Edward Leigh
Collection: Speech
Image of John Cheever
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
- John Cheever
Collection: Speech
Image of Cato the Younger
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
- Cato the Younger
Collection: Speech
Image of Cato the Younger
Speak briefly and to the point.
- Cato the Younger
Collection: Speech
Image of Pliny the Younger
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
- Pliny the Younger
Collection: Speech
Image of Ken Weber
You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.
- Ken Weber
Collection: Speech
Image of Frank Muir
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
- Frank Muir
Collection: Speech
Image of Bill Peterson
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
- Bill Peterson
Collection: Speech
Image of Russ Feingold
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
- Russ Feingold
Collection: Speech
Image of George Fetherling
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
- George Fetherling
Collection: Speech
Image of Adi Shankara
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
- Adi Shankara
Collection: Speech
Image of Peter Salovey
The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.
- Peter Salovey
Collection: Speech
Image of Henry F. Ashurst
A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.
- Henry F. Ashurst
Collection: Speech
Image of Cleobulus
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
- Cleobulus
Collection: Speech
Image of Propertius
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
- Propertius
Collection: Speech
Image of Demosthenes
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- Demosthenes
Collection: Speech
Image of Anne Waldman
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.
- Anne Waldman
Collection: Speech
Image of Avital Ronell
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
- Avital Ronell
Collection: Speech
Image of Amor Towles
Slurring is the cursive of speech.
- Amor Towles
Collection: Speech
Image of Yunus Emre
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.
- Yunus Emre
Collection: Speech
Image of Herman Herst, Jr.
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
- Herman Herst, Jr.
Collection: Speech
Image of Jean de La Fontaine
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.
- Jean de La Fontaine
Collection: Speech
Image of Saul Gorn
Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.
- Saul Gorn
Collection: Speech
Image of Jerome Rothenberg
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.
- Jerome Rothenberg
Collection: Speech
Image of Zechariah Chafee
Speech should be fruitful as well as free.
- Zechariah Chafee
Collection: Speech
Image of Muriel Humphrey Brown
Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
- Muriel Humphrey Brown
Collection: Speech
Image of Thomas Seward
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
- Thomas Seward
Collection: Speech
Image of Antoine-Marin Lemierre
Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.
- Antoine-Marin Lemierre
Collection: Speech
Image of Michelle Goldberg
I bet we`ll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to be resettled here.
- Michelle Goldberg
Collection: Speech
Image of Rachel Martin
Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Speech
Image of Molly Corbett Broad
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
- Molly Corbett Broad
Collection: Speech
Image of Klaus Kinski
I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.
- Klaus Kinski
Collection: Speech
Image of David Mamet
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
- David Mamet
Collection: Speech
Image of Jon McGregor
If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
- Jon McGregor
Collection: Speech
Image of Danica McKellar
There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
- Danica McKellar
Collection: Speech
Image of Barbara Tuchman
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
- Barbara Tuchman
Collection: Speech
Image of Ovid
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
- Ovid
Collection: Speech
Image of Jules Verne
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
- Jules Verne
Collection: Speech
Image of Anthony Trollope
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
- Anthony Trollope
Collection: Speech
Image of Richard Branson
It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Speech