Quotes: speech
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Plutarch
Greek biographer and essayist
46-120 AD
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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T. S. Eliot
British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
1888-1965
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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