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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
Norman Vincent Peale
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
Frantz Fanon
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances... If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
James C. Humes
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Thomas Fuller
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Sir Winston Churchill, to his so
Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.
George Carlin
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.
Gore Vidal
I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ. Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. He was my model, Churchill said. I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall.
Adlai Stevenson, about his last
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.known for his three-hour speeches, reportedly shortened them to not more than 90 minutes
Fidel Castro
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Proverb
A closed mouth catches no flies.
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
Van Wyck Brooks
