Speech Quotes

And so I say to you today, my friends, that you may be able to speak with the tongues of men and angels; you may have the eloquence of articulate speech; but if you have not love, it means nothing.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

It is pretty tough to reshape human society in an after-dinner speech.

I have always been very much struck by the advantage enjoyed by people who lived at an earlier period of the world than one's own. They had the first opportunity of saying the right thing. Over and over again it has happened to me to think of something which I thought was worth saying, only to find that it had been already exploited, and very often spoiled, before I had an opportunity of saying it.

The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

I am going to give you a warning: be on your guard, because I am going to speak, or try to speak, in French, a formidable undertaking and one which will put great demands on your friendship for Great Britain.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.