Quotes & Sayings About Impromptu Speech

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk. — Mahatma Gandhi

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. — John Mellencamp

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell. — Mark Twain

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain