Speech Quotes

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Agatha Christie

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silence is golden.

Think before you speak.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

Only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Silence is the virtue of a fool.

Francis Bacon

Talk low, talk slow and don`t say too much.

John Wayne

The best thing about animals is they don`t talk much.

Thornton Niven Wilder