Oratory Quotes

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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
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. — Oscar Wilde
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. — Winston Churchill
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! — Winston Churchill
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly,… — Claude C. Hopkins
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art. — Jonathan Swift
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
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory,… — John Vinocur
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. — Horace
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
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns. — Frederick William Faber
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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