Jane Austen Quotes, Speech Quotes, Might Quotes

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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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

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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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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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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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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Speech Quotes , Tongue Quotes

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Listening Quotes , Speech Quotes

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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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

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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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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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