833 Quotes About Speech

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.