Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the…

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

— Plato

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried…

— Thomas Carlyle

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

— Leslie Stephen

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

— William Penn

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

— Cato the Elder

Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

— Philip Massinger

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after…

— Will Rogers

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

— Isaac Barrow

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

— Charles Caleb Colton