Quotes About Speech

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Action is eloquence.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.

Be not so long to speak; I long to die

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

Such stuff as madmen tongue.

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.

You have witchcraft in your lips.

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. —Ambrose Bierce If

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

can best be described as one of these orators who, before they get up, do not know what they are going to say, when they are speaking do not know what they are saying, and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said

Parliamentary democracy has flourished under party government. That is to say, it has flourished so long as there has been full freedom of speech, free elections, and free institutions. So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make one side of a question the only one which may be heard.

I lived in fact from mouth to hand.