ADAPTING QUOTATIONS

The more you can relate your quotations to your audience and the people you are praising in your speech, the more interested and flattered they will feel. If the only quotation you can find is not very relevant or complimentary, adapt it.

Quotations  suitable for delivery in a speech.  

Drinking and Toasts

We'll drink a cup of kindness yet, for the sake of old lang's syne.
                    (Adapted from Robert Burns)

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss within the cup,
And I'II not look for wine.
                                                  (Ben Jonson)