With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. — Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Copy Share Image
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The aim of our orator, then, when speaking of things that are just and holy and good--and he should not speak of… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Trying to settle a problem with oratory is like attempting to unsnarl a traffic jam by blowing horns — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. — Ralph Archbold Copy Share Image
“Who is your audience; who are you speaking to? This is one of the most important aspects of oratory. Your” — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time… — John Vinocur Copy Share Image
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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