Mark Twain Quotes, Essentials Quotes, Speech Quotes

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

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

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When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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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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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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I love free 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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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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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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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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

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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

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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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Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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The best answer to bad speech is good speech

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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

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