Oratory Quotes

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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no true orator who is not a hero. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was… — Plutarch
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the… — Henry Clay
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational… — Christian Nestell Bovee
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt… — Kurt Vonnegut
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and… — Martin Luther
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the… — Aldous Huxley
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. — Seamus Heaney
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces… — David Josiah Brewer
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the… — David Josiah Brewer
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come… — James Howard Kunstler

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