Orators Quote by Ben Jonson Download Open image “The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.” — Ben Jonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Orators Oratory Poet Poetry
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which… — William James Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after… — Will Rogers 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
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer… — Anthony Trollope 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 as if… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
