Category Detail for Speech (25 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Alexander Pope General Speech Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
2 Unknown General Speech We lightly jest, with heedless words that never should be spoken; and do not know how words can bruise nor wounded hearts be broken.
3 Unknown General Speech Kind words are short to speak but their echoes are endless.
4 Franklin P. Jones General Speech Conversation is the art of telling people a little less than they want to know.
5 Mark Twain General Speech The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
6 Rousseau General Speech People who know little are usually great talkers, while people who know much say little.
7 Samuel J. Hurwitt General Speech Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
8 Albert Einstein General Speech If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
9 Charles Caleb Colton General Speech When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
10 Oliver Wendell Holmes General Speech It is the providence of knowledge to speak and the privilege of wisdom to listen.
11 Calvin Coolidge General Speech I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
12 Horace General Speech Whatever advice you give, be brief.
13 Frank Tyger General Speech Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
14 Francis Bacon General Speech Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
15 Steve Post General Speech Remember a closed mouth gathers no foot.
16 Kin Hubbard General Speech The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
17 Xenocrates General Speech I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
18 Martin Fraquhar Tupper General Speech Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
19 George Eliot General Speech Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
20 Proverbs Lds Speech He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
21 Shakespeare Literature Speech He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
22 Shakespeare Literature Speech Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
23 Robert Louis Stevenson Literature Speech All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
24 Publilius Syrus Politics Speech I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
25 Scipione Alberti Politics Speech Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.