Oratory Quotes
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Oratory Quotes & Sayings
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Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
— Winston Churchill
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Women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.
— Anna Julia Cooper
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
— Winston Churchill
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
— Oscar Wilde
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
— Dianna Daniels Booher
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
— Ambrose Bierce
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.
— Kahlil Gibran
I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.
— Mark Twain
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
— Thomas Carlyle
The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear - fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and violence.
— Joseph Conrad
In oratory the will must predominate.
— David Hare
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The loudmouthed pervert loudly, pervertedly, strode in, spewing his loud, perverted oratory the entire way. It
— Satoshi Wagahara
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
— Seamus Heaney
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
— Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
The greatest words are written on hearts, not paper.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
— David Josiah Brewer
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
— Charles Churchill
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
— Sinclair Lewis
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
— Sinclair Lewis
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
— Mark Twain
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
— Samuel Johnson
Earlier on I said something so lucidly philosophical that my oratory rambled non-stop right into expressing amazement I had just said that.
— Beth Myrle Rice
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lackingGod warn us!
matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. — William Shakespeare
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Its Constitutionthe glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
When a world of menCould not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness overrul'd; — William Shakespeare
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
— Albert Einstein
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is a something in the very tone of the man who has been with Jesus which has more power to touch the heart than the most perfect oratory:
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Oratory is the highest form of music
— Agona Apell
All great speakers were bad speakers at first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
— Ben Jonson
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
— George Saintsbury
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
— Jonathan Swift
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
