#Speech Quotes

“I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

“I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.”

“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”

“Be checked for silence,But never taxed for speech.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

“it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee”

“Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.”

“"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.”

“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”

“A good indignation makes an excellent speech.”

“Silence is only commendableIn a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.”

“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”

“The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.”

“I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.”

“I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.”

“What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.”

“Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!”

“This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.”

“I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”

“Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

“Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.”

“Thy tongueMakes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,With ravishing division, to her lute.”

“A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.”

“It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.”

“George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.”

“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”

“More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.”

“Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.”

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

“Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

“Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”

“Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.”