833 Quotes About Speech

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

And empty heads console with empty sound.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself. [Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous? N'en dites point.]

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.