Orator Quotes

59 quotes by 42 authors

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment… — John Peter Altgeld
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the… — Charles Horton Cooley
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;… — George Bernard Shaw
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. — Joshua Reynolds
A good orator is pointed and impassioned. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. — Cato the Elder
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say. — Finley Peter Dunne
Gold is a deep-persuading orator. — Richard Barnfield
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of… — Marsilio Ficino
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. — Theophrastus
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round… — Steve Lacy

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