Quotes About Speech

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.

When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

They were virtuosos of alliteration and didn't know it.

I have loved words, I have hated them, and I hope I have used them well.

Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing.

Bi oju ri enu a pamo. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?