The people only understand what they can feel; the only…

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

Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

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

— Isaac Barrow

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

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which…

— William James

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

— John Burroughs

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

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Philip Massinger

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer…

— Anthony Trollope

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if…

— William C. Bryant

The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln…

— Edgar Lee Masters

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

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid,…

— Elihu Burritt