Quotes on Public Speaking:
Quotes with the Keyword ...Speech...

These quotes on public speaking feature the keyword ...speech...as the focus of the quotes. These quotes are mostly about the art and eloquence of speech.

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Speech Quotes on Public Speaking

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
-Ira Hayes

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
-Sophocles in Oedipus Colonus

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
-Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Making a speech involves the study three aspects: the means of producing persuasion, the language, and the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.(paraphrased)
-Aristotle, Rhetoric

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
-Dale Carnegie

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
- Ira Hayes

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
-Sir Ralph Richardson

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
~Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American author and humorist

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
-Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592, French essayist

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
-Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
-Peggy Noonan, U.S. author and presidential speechwriter...What I Saw at the Revolution

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speech-making, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States

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