Public Speaking Quotes And Sayings

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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
– D.H. Lawrence

“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”
– George Jessel

“Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.”
– Evan Esar

“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
– Mark Twain

“Speak when you are angry—and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
– Laurence J. Peters

“Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speechmaker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?”
– Kin Hubbard

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.”
– John Andrew Holmes

“If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.”
– Kin Hubbard

“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”
– George Bancroft

“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
– Don Marquis

“Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.”
– Joseph Pulitzer

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”
– Cato The Elder

“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
– John Ford

“That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.”
– John Stuart

“The people are to be taken in very small doses.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.”
– George Washington

“The public have neither shame nor gratitude.”
– William Hazlitt

“I don’t care what they call me as long as they mention my name.”
– George M. Cohan

“Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

“What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.”
– Hansell B. Duckett

“It’s a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?”
– Eileen Aitkins

“Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.”
– John Hoskins

“The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.”
– Voltaire

“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
– Rami Belson

“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.”
– Claudius

“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].”
– Bible

“Great speakers listen to the audience with their eyes.”
– Unknown

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