Phaedrus Quote by Plato

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

— Plato

“A good orator must be a good listener”

— Aman Srivastava

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

— Wendell Phillips

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

— George McGovern

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

— Cato the Elder

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him,…

— David Josiah Brewer

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along…

— Henry David Thoreau

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

— William Jennings Bryan