Commonplace Quote by William Hazlitt

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

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

— George McGovern

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

— William Jennings Bryan

“A good orator must be a good listener”

— Aman Srivastava

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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does…

— George William Russell

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

— Joshua Reynolds

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator…

— Plato