Quotes about orator
oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory matter politician
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
orators
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory succeed delivery
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
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory firsts action
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
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
oratory vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. Thomas Jefferson
oratory persuasion power-of-persuasion
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas B. Macaulay
oratory argument adversaries
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. Samuel Johnson
oratory speech foxes
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
oratory speech firsts
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory prove knows
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