Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— William Hazlitt

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

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

— George McGovern

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

— Andrew McAleer

Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

— Heywood Broun

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson