QUOTES ABOUT SPEECH & SPEAKING
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

[Ambrose Bierce] | [1.1]


"He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know."

[Lao Tzu] | [1.3]


"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

[Benjamin Franklin] | [1.3]


"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

[Martin Fraquhar Tupper] | [1.12]


"A man that speaks too much, and museth but little, wasteth his mind in words, and is counted a fool among men."

[Martin Fraquhar Tupper] | [1.12]


"They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say."

[Matthew Prior] | [1.12]


"Talking and eloquence are not the same. To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

[Ben Jonson] | [1.12]


"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

[Socrates] | [1.12]


"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

[Shakespeare] | [1.12] | Love’s Labor’s Lost, V.i.6