Bathing Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

— Karl Kraus

“Listen to a woman speak at a public gathering (if she hasn't painfully lost her wind). She doesn't "speak," she throws her trembling body…

— Hélène Cixous

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

— Maria Montessori

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

— Henry F. Ashurst

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

— Mitt Romney

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter…

— John Morley

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

— Demosthenes

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”

— Harold Pinter

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of…

— Ayn Rand

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams