Speech Quotes
These are some of the best 'Speech' quotations and sayings.
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A constant governance of our speech, according to duty and reason, is a high instance and a special argument of a thoroughly sincere and solid goodness.
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A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. - I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can measure.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; in all that ever I observed I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!
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For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless - nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
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His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.
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His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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