(1353 quotes found)
“People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.”
Winston Churchill
“A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.”
Lord Mansfield
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks”
Jean Kerr
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
“All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
Confucius
“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
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
Dale Carnegie
