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Quotes About Speech

No pocos dictadores tienen tanto aprecio por las palabras como por las armas
~ Augusto Cury
If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
~ Ausonius
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
~ Austin O'Malley
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
~ Author Unknown
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
~ Author Unknown
The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
~ Author Unknown
Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nước nào không có tá»± do báo chí thì cÅ©ng không th? có dân ch?.
~ aziz nesin
Yaddeechachasi Vasheekartu Jagadeken Karmana. Paraapavaadashaastreebhyo Gaam Charanteem Nivaarya. If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.
~ bacon francis ii
It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak somewhat they desire to say; and how far about they will fetch; and how many other matters they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much use.
~ bacon francis xviii
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning, to borrow the name of the world; as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.
~ bacon francis xx
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.
~ Jon Lovett
When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
~ Jeff Merkley
If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.
~ Donald Trump
If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
~ Paul Rust
Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.
~ Layla Moran
I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.
~ Roy Hodgson
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
~ David Arquette
There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.
~ Rula Ghani