Speech Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Nature, Words, Become

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

Freedom, May, Away

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

Best, Angry, Regret

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha

Wise, Through, Thought

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

God, Freedom, Country

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Actions, Superior, Modest

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Girl, Two, Away

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

Good, Three, Takes

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Writing, Study, Lives

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Fortunes, Lest

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Successful, Mind

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Making, Means

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

Actions, Superior, Modest

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem

Freedom, Push, Limit

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

Freedom, Thought, Seldom

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

Power, Her, She

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Art, Lost

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Brad Thor

Freedom, Live, Powerful

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Victory, Lose, Expect

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Freedom, Thought

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Hypocrite, Down, Tree

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

Men, Thought, Thoughts

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, Rise

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music, Said, Angels

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead, Until, Language

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint Eastwood

Crazy, Thinking, Give

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

Free, Wrong, Rights

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fool, Care, Jealous

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Best, Angry, Regret

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Time, Political, Writing

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