A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— William Hazlitt

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

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