Public Speaking Quotes And Sayings

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

“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

“Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don’t whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ”
– Sydney J. Harris

“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
– Peggy Noonan

“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.”
– Aldous Huxley

“Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ”
– Lord Reading

“I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. ”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.”
– Joseph Chatfield

“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”
– Archibald Philip Primrose

“His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ”
– Unknown

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”
– Alfred E. Neuman

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

“Liberty don’t work as good in practice as it does in speeches. ”
– Will Rogers

“The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ”
– frances Rodman

“A speech is like a woman’s skirt: it needs to be long enough to cover the subject matter but short enough to hold the audience’s attention.”
– Unknown

“Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either. ”
– Gore Vidal

“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”
– G.B. Trudeau

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about. ”
– Unknown

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
– Mark Twain

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

“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

“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”
– Dorothy Sarnoff

“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.”
– Mark Twain

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