An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a… — Henry David Thoreau 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 greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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