Oratory Quotes

64 Oratory quotes by 52 unique authors

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
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books,… — Unknown Author
Depending on your location in the United States, Declamation might not be an offered event for your league. Or if it is offered it might… — ARNAV DIXIT
The fact alone that both, like Chatham before them, were great war ministers, links their names inseparably. Beyond that, they shared many qualities in common:… — Unknown Author
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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