Quotes About Speech

Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

The water as a topic of conversation dried up.

I knew a man once who stammered, said Jimmy. He used to chew dog biscuit while he was speaking. It cured him. Besides being nutritious.

He scattered his aitches as a fountain its sprays in a strong wind. He was very earnest.

I understood, later, that the explosive vibratory power in speech could be wisely directed to free one's life from difficulties, and thus operate without scar or rebuke.12

that the explosive vibratory power in speech could be wisely directed to free one's life from difficulties and thus operate without scar or rebuke.12

I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.

The two fountains spoke to each other in the pretty speech of falling water . . . .

Among the peoples of the world I am not universally admired for the bell-like clarity of my diction. Words slide out of my mouth like fat fish. Having lived my life in various parts of Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas and having been sired by a gruff-talking Marine from Chicago and a grits-and-gravy honey from Rome, Georgia, what has remained is an indefinable nonspeech, flavored subtly with a nonaccent, and decipherable to no one, black or white, on the American continent.

in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Practice in not speaking can at least give us enough control over what we say that our tongues do not "go off" automatically. This discipline provides us with a certain inner distance that gives us time to consider our words fully and the presence of mind to control what we say and when we say it.

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.