Society...Communication...SPEECHES
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1401
“Three things matter in a speech: who says it, how he says it, and what he says - and, of the three, the last matters the least.” — John Morley
SPEECHES, Communication
1402
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
SPEECHES, Potential
1403 P
“I always think a great orator convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly
enjoying the beliefs which he wants us to accept.” — William Butler Yeats
SPEECHES, Communication, Honesty, Judgment
1404
“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.” — Thomas B. Macaulay
SPEECHES, Communication, Honesty, Politics
1405
“Let it never be said of you, ‘I thought he would never finish.’ Get off while you’re still ahead; always leave them wanting more. Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.” — Dorothy Sarnoff
SPEECHES, Bores, Communication
1406 P
“A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad 30-minute speech to 200
people wastes only a half-hour of his own time. But he wastes 100 hours of the audience’s time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.” — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
SPEECHES, Bores, Accountability, Personal Management
1407 PH
“What the orators lack in depth, they give you in length.” — Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
PSPEECHES, Bores
1408 CH
“Be sincere, be brief, be seated.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
SPEECHES, Bores
1409 H
“To make a speech immortal you don’t have to make it everlasting.”
— Baron Leslie Hore-Belisha
SPEECHES, Bores
1410 HA
“An after-dinner speech should be like a lady’s dress - long enough to cover the subject and
short enough to be interesting.” — R. A. Butler
SPEECHES, Bores
1411 PH
“I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when
they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.” — Lord Birkett
SPEECHES, Bores
1412 HA
“If you haven’t struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!” — George Jessel
SPEECHES, Bores, Communication
1413 H
“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up
to speak in public.” — George Jessel
SPEECHES, Fear, Self-Confidence
1414
“Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.”
— Herbert Gardner
SPEECHES, Communication, Happiness, Attitude
1415 A
“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.” — Blaise Pascal
SPEECHES, Communication
SPEECHES Cross-References
Doubt—345 • Knowledge—570 •
Judgment—674, 682 • Ego—928 • Conscience—971 •
Sciences—1096 • Politics—1232, 1247 • Communication—1383-1384, 1397 •
Bores—1418-1420
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