Speech Quotes
2141 quotes by 1492 authors
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
— John Ruskin
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
— Michel de Montaigne
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
— Ben Jonson
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You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
— John Cheever
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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
— Pindar
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
— Seneca the Younger
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Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.
— John Hay
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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