Oratory Quotes
64 Oratory quotes by 52 unique authors
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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
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I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
— Noam Chomsky
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
— Plutarch
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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
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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
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
— Bennett Cerf
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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
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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
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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
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Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
— Brooks Hays
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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
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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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
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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
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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
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Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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In oratory the will must predominate.
— David Hare
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