A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge… — Plato Copy Share Image
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist. — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for… — Liberace Copy Share Image
Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
