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
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. — George Chapman 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
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
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
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
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
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency,… — Charles Horton Cooley 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 oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury 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
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 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
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley 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
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
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
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — 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
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort… — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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