Books Quote by George Saintsbury

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

— 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…

— Claude C. Hopkins

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

— Thornton Wilder

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all…

— Samuel Johnson

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

— Aldous Huxley

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer…

— Vladimir Nabokov

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

— E. M. Forster