Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Speeches (oratory).
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Herbert Samuel
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
John Wayne
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence
What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.
Too many of us speak twice before we think
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Witherspoon
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
James C. Humes
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jim Beggs
