William Shakespeare Quotes

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

I'm a talker.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

A great speech is literature.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

Now, you've seen that each one of us have a couple of soapboxes that we like to mount. And after about five minutes of our opinion, then we ask you a question.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

The very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves.