Speech Quotes
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I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.
Aaron Karo
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Take the risk that you’ll end up regretting your speech, because it’s better than regretting your silence.
Brian Morton
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
Elena Ferrante
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Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.
Terry Eagleton
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
Thomas Hardy
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Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautama Buddha
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
Gautama Buddha
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The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
George T. Delacorte, Jr.
