Speech Quotes

Such is the state of things in England, and it is well that it should be realised by all of us; but ...

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to be...

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic ...

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's mor...

His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timid...

When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it...

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she...

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy ...

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in t...

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, ...

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues ...

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Wh...

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate...

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of ou...

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It...

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable ...

It is a tiresome way of speaking when you should despatch the business to beat about the bush.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more...

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to ...

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und...

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular s...

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him do...

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anythi...

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded suc...

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make ...

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

Maybe you lost someone you never expected you would lose. Maybe you lost yourself. That’s even worse...

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and...

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits whil...

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out...

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea th...

Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history conn...

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an...

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, th...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed e...

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are...

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right ...

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of th...

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to...

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec...

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinki...

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully ...

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes o...

Speech is the voice of the heart.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not abso...

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It c...

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different ...

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man t...

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic t...

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon...

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, b...

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reach...

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daugh...

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To thos...

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.