Speech Quotes

"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."
-Sophocles

"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
-Sir George Savile

"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."
-Confucius

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."
-Antoine Rivarol

"A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill."
-Lord Mansfield

"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
-Harry A. Blackmun

"The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin."
-Frances Rodman

"Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
-Robert Southey

"To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!"
-Martin Zweig

"Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between."
-Alfred E. Neuman

"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would."
-Kate Moss

"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."
-Leonardo Dicaprio

"Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least."
-John Morley

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."
-George Mason

"The best answer to bad speech is good speech."
-Alan M. Dershowitz

"Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today."
-James C. Humes

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."
-Charles M. De Talleyrand

"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
-Sir Joshua Reynolds

"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
-Cindy Crawford

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
-Charles Simic

"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."
-Karl Popper

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
-Mark Twain

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
-Mark Twain

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
-Bob Marley

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
-Soren Kierkegaard