Oratory Quotes

64 Oratory quotes by 52 unique authors

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question… — Noam Chomsky
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. — Noam Chomsky
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may… — Thomas Brooks
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' — Plutarch
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or… — Pope Paul VI
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,… — John Evelyn
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought. — Bennett Cerf
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and… — Michael Short
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to… — Unknown Author
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. — Brooks Hays
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious.… — Mortimer Adler
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of… — Emily Post
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is… — Henry Purcell
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. — Unknown Author
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case… — Isocrates
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an… — Mark Twain
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
In oratory the will must predominate. — David Hare

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