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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
-Frantz Fanon
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
-John Ford
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Half wits talk much, but say little.
-Benjamin Franklin
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
-Thomas Fuller
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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
-Herbert Gardner
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
-Johann von Goethe
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
-Johann von Goethe
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
-Baltasar Gracian
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He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
-Henry Gratton
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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
-Mark Victor Hansen
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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
-William Hazlitt
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Better never begin than never make an end.
-George Herbert
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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
-Cullen Hightower
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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
-Homer
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
-Horace
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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
-James C. Humes
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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
-James C. Humes
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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
-James C. Humes
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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
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
-Ben Jonson
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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
-Ann Landers
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
-Joe E. Lewis
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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
-John Madden
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Books about Speeches (oratory)
