Speech Quotes · Page 12

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

“Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

— Maajid Nawaz

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”

— Amit Kalantri

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

— Austin O'Malley

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

— Anthony Horowitz

Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

— Genevieve Taggard

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

— Larry Flynt

“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”

— Stephen Keague

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

— Robert South

There are no degrees to freedom of speech, its all or nothing. You can't choose only what you like to hear.

— Anonymous

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

— Brandon Boyd

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

— Gautama Buddha

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

— Louis D. Brandeis

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

— Killer Mike

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or…

— Mike Royko

“Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right…

— Neil Gaiman

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most…

— Amanda Gorman

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary…

— Rory Bremner

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said,…

— Erich Segal

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the…

— Nikola Tesla

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the…

— Scott Adams

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it…

— Robert Kennedy

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have…

— Susan Sontag

Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to…

— Seth Godin

I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals…

— Louis Farrakhan

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in…

— Mary McCarthy

“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you…

— Tony Harrison

Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill…

— Charles Dickens

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My reasoning they may…

— Og Mandino

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

— Helmut Schmidt

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert

“help stamp out pollution clean out your speech.”

— lorraine gokul

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

— Avital Ronell

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

— Susan Griffin

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael