Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God… — St. Benedict Copy Share Image
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,… — Richard M Perloff Copy Share Image
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
“I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty.… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience… — Russell H. Conwell Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
