“It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience… — Russell H. Conwell Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,… — Richard M Perloff Copy Share Image
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God… — St. Benedict Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that… — Anonymous 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 art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce 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
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action,"… — Plutarch 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
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
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