Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. — Samuel Johnson 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
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the… — Francis Assikinack 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
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
We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility,… — Brother Lawrence 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
The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory,… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. — Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Copy Share Image
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 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
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly,… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
