Speeches (oratory) Quotes

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Herbert Gardner

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Plutarch, Of Hearing

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracian

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Comte De Mirabeau

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Tom Ogden

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

William Howard Taft

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Cullen Hightower

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Lily Walters

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Italian Proverb

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

H. L. Mencken

The war of words is done;The red-lipped cannon speak;The battle has begun.The web your speeches spunTears and blood shall streak;The war of words is done.Smoke enshrouds the sun;Earth staggers at the shriekOf battle new begun.Poltroons and braggarts run:Woe to the poor, the meek!The war of words is done.And hope not now to shunThe doom that dogs the weak,Thunders every gun;Victory must be won.When the red-lipped cannon speak,The war of words is done,The slaughter has begun.

John Davidson

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Charles Churchill