With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty.… — John Locke 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
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 simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 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
“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which… — Glenway Wescott 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
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they… — Aristotle 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
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
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
“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
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. — George Chapman 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
