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Oratory Quotes

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Authors on Oratory Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marcus Tullius Cicero Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson Plutarch Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Winston Churchill Jonathan Swift Mark Twain Mortimer Adler Isaac D'Israeli Ambrose Bierce Thomas Carlyle Charles Churchill Elihu Burritt Noam Chomsky Ralph Archbold Mary Barnett Gilson Anna Julia Cooper Johann Kaspar Lavater Thomas Jefferson Claude C. Hopkins Ben Jonson Parker J. Palmer Horace Francois de La Rochefoucauld William C. Bryant John Kenneth Galbraith Sinclair Lewis Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Frederick William Faber Samuel Johnson David Hare
2.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
Brooks Hays

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When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.
Plutarch

5.
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

6.
In oratory the will must predominate.
David Hare

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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
William Shakespeare

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There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Horace

10.
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Rufus Choate

13.
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
Thomas Jefferson

14.
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
Ben Jonson

15.
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

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It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
Jonathan Swift

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Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
Mark Twain

19.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
Henry Purcell

20.
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
William C. Bryant

21.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
Ambrose Bierce

22.
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff

23.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Noam Chomsky

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Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.
Elihu Burritt

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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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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

28.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach,
to delight,
to move.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

30.
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.
Isaac D'Israeli

31.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Dianna Daniels Booher

32.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

33.
Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
Mortimer Adler

34.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

35.
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Winston Churchill

36.
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

37.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill

38.
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
Woodrow Wilson

40.
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Ralph Archbold

41.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Philibert Joseph Roux

42.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
Mark Twain

43.
... 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

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
John Milton

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
Aldous Huxley

46.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
Winston Churchill

47.
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

48.
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.
Claude C. Hopkins

49.
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
Plutarch

50.
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
Henry David Thoreau