William Shakespeare Quotes

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

I still have perfect diction!

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

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

When I speak, I am well articulated.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

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

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

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.

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

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.

I don't talk in sound bites.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.