Art Quote by Learned Hand

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

— Confucius

“A discreet person . . . • is strong, yet humble; • expresses genuine concern and interest; • exercises caution to avoid unnecessary risks;…

— Susan C. Young

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

— Max Weber

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“While he would try from time to time to improve his delivery in public speaking and TV appearances, this never came naturally to him.…

— Sanjaya Baru

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the…

— Robert Leighton

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good…

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

— Herbert Gold

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would…

— William S. Burroughs

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers…

— Seth Grahame-Smith