Charles Dickens Quotes, Words Of Wisdom Quotes, Speech Quotes

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

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I love free speech.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

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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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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

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