Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Who is your audience; who are you speaking to? This is one of the most important aspects of oratory. Your” — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. — Ralph Archbold Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Trying to settle a problem with oratory is like attempting to unsnarl a traffic jam by blowing horns — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
“Here,for the last time together,appeared a triumvirate of old men,relics of a golden age,who still towered like giants above creatures of a… — David Morris Potter Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the… — Francis Assikinack Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd… — John Milton Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time… — John Vinocur Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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