Orators Quotes

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When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths. — Philibert Joseph Roux
No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never… — Margaret Mitchell
Our swords shall play the orators for us. — Christopher Marlowe
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. — William Shakespeare
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. — Baron de Montesquieu
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and… — Abraham Lincoln
The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting… — Andy Stanley
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they… — Aristophanes
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to… — Auberon Herbert
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own… — Elihu Root
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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