Orator Quotes

59 Orator quotes by 42 unique authors

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. — Isaac Barrow
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't… — Mike Singletary
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. — Wendell Phillips
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.… — Charles Caleb Colton
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no true orator who is not a hero. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator… — Leonardo da Vinci
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest… — David Hume
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated… — Will Rogers
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 a… — Will Rogers
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic… — Hartley Coleridge
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. — George McGovern
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is… — Charles Spurgeon
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. — Christopher Pike
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more… — William Shakespeare
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable… — Sigmund Freud
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with… — Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider… — Richard Dawkins
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not… — George William Russell

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