Orators Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero Download Open image “Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Orators Vehement Weak
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
