Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Speech Quotes >>
Speech Quotes
This section contains Speech Quotes


His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. (Quote by - Buddha)

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. (Quote by - Kate Adie)

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)

The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. (Quote by - Jean Galbert de Campistron)

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Quote by - Matthew)

Speech is the mirror of the soul. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding (Quote by - George Savile)

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. (Quote by - Matthew Simpson)

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. (Quote by - Chanakya)

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. (Quote by - Hesiod)

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. (Quote by - Michael Caine)

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (Quote by - Harold Pinter)

The best answer to bad speech is good speech (Quote by - Alan M. Dershowitz)

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. (Quote by - Bible)

A great speech is literature. (Quote by - Peggy Noonan)

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. (Quote by - Leo McKern)

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. (Quote by - Martin Fraquhar Tupper)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11