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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish:… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. — Ralph Archbold Copy Share Image
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really… — Anonymous 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
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
