The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

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