Quotes about Speeches

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The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Hein
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain. — H. I. Phillips
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent. — Franklin J. Dickman
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill
First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak. — Epictetus
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say. — Gerald Ford
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them. — Hubert Humphrey
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot
Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. — William Osier
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Speech is the small change of silence. — George Meredith
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it. — Calvin Coolidge
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. — Edmund Muskie
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then co — Winston Churchill
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. — William Shakespeare
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I re — President James A. Garfield - courtesy of Millard's "Destiny of the Republic"
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at — Yvonne Strahovski
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them. — Bruce Eric Kaplan
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter Drucker