Quotes About Speech

De peligro e mengua si quieres seer quito, guardate de tu lengua, e mas de tu escripto. Negar lo que se dize a veces a lugar, mas, si escrito yaze, non se puede negar.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

I'm old and rich, and people let me say whatever I want.

The Bible has a lot to say about our mouths, our lips, our tongues, for our speech betrays us. What is down in the well will come up in the bucket. –VANCE HAVNER

Talk. I pointed to my board. I hit the word again and again. Talk. Talk. Talk.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.