It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. By Mark Twain Funny, Hard work, Humorous, Public speaking, Quotable
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell, but you’ve got to go on. By William Thomas Piper Public speaking
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. By William Hazlitt Public speaking, Wise
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp: I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin. By Stephen Bayne Funny, Motivational, Public speaking, Success
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational, Public speaking
A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about something which interests everybody. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Public speaking, Wise
“Begin at the beginning,” the king said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” By Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Public speaking, Success
A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s time which should be a hanging offense. By Jenkin Lloyd Jones Funny, Public speaking, Wise
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it. By Herman Herst Jr. Funny, Public speaking
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. By Heinrich Heine Funny, Public speaking
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity By George Bernard Shaw Public speaking, Wise
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. By George Bernard Shaw Funny, Public speaking
