Speech Quotes

I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Speak after the manner of men.

Romans

Speech is the index of the mind.

Seneca

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Bible

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

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Charles Churchill

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Benjamin Disraeli

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

Homer

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

Homer

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of vou!

Bible

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew

If you your lips would keep from slips Five things observe with care To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Plato

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

Plautus

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

Bible

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

François Rabelais

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nicolas Boileau

Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole.

G.K. Chesterton

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own.

I want everyone to get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow, we make plans to bury the new council chair. And don't worry about the shovel shortage," I said, glancing from face to determined face. "Because Calvin Malone has dug his own grave.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]

Conduct, not speech, flowery

It’s quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal cords, and you move your lips and tongue. Or, to put it another way, you speak.

Juli Zeh

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.

Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday....

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

How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying."And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s slower, and maybe what’s happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t hear between the beats anymore and it’s just a hum.

Steven Soderbergh

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston S. Churchill

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play with white roses that belong to others.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.

Condoleezza Rice

Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or being a man. Because a real man sure as hell would never have disrespected a woman the way each and everyone of you have disrespected Maysie.

A. Meredith Walters

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

I can’t curse those who don't believe as I do. I can’t express hate or disdain for those who criticize what I hold dear. I can’t outshout, bully, or taunt them. I can’t exercise the liberty of free speech because I answer to a higher law.I answer to the Word of God.

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

Michel de Montaigne

Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. (As a young man during the French and Indian war he had been more outspoken, but he learned from experience to allow his sheer presence to speak for itself.) While less confident men blathered on, he remained silent, thereby making himself a vessel into which admirers for their fondest convictions, becoming a kind of receptacle for diverse aspirations that magically came together in one man.

Joseph J. Ellis

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

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

Ursula K Le Guin

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K Le Guin

Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.

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

Ursula K Le Guin

Three times now... We've fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We've hurt one another. We've hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created ME. I was a Jinchuuriki, the embodiment of hatred and power. And I hated this world, and all the people in it... I wanted to destroy it with my own hands. The exact same thing Akatsuki is trying to do today. But one man, one ninja from Konoha stopped me. I was his enemy, yet he wept for me! I hurt him, yet he called me his friend! He saved me! My enemy, my fellow Jinchuuriki... He suffered the same pain as me, yet bore no ill will! There are no enemies here because we've all suffered at Akatsuki's hand! SO THERE IS NO SAND, NO STONE, NO LEAF, NO MIST, NO CLOUD! THERE ARE ONLY SHINOBI! And if you still hold a grudge against the Sand, then when this war is over, come and take my head instead! Our enemies are after the friend who saved my life! If they take him, if we hand him over, our world is finished! I want to protect him, and I want to protect our world! But I'm too young to protect it all on my own! All of you lend me your aid!

Masashi Kishimoto

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