Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge… — Plato Copy Share Image
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for… — Liberace Copy Share Image
Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
