Speech Quotes

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Quotes on Speech

"It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?"

Aitkins, Eileen · Speech · 0 fans >>
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"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."

Arendt, Hannah · Speech · 0 fans >>
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"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."

Bacon, Francis · Speech · 1 fans >>
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"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

Barthes, Roland · Speech · 1 fans >>
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"It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

Belson, Rami · Speech · 1 fans >>
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"The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]"

Bible · Speech · 1 fans >>
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]"

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"Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches."

Bismarck, Otto Von · Speech · 0 fans >>
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"The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them."

Caine, Michael · Speech · 2 fans >>
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"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

Campbell, Patrick · Speech · 0 fans >>
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