Orators Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The passions are the only orators which always persuade.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Orators Passion
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“You can’t manufacture passion or “motivate” people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which… — William James Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
