Quotes of Orator - somelinesforyou

“ Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy. ”

- Henry Gratton

“ An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law. ”

- Unknown

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ It is delivery that makes the orators success. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Passions are the only orators to always convince us. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length. ”

- Charles de Montesquieu

“ The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. ”

- Robert Orben

“ All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Talkers are no good doers. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears. ”

- Gerald C. Meyers

“ He that speaks much, is much mistaken. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows. ”

- Unknown

“ Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. ”

- John Witherspoon

“ Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it. ”

- Tom Ogden

“ Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. ”

- Cullen Hightower

“ The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about. ”

- Micheal Mescon

“ The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose. ”

- Lily Walters

“ There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers. ”

- Unknown

“ Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing. ”

- R. S. White

“ We should speak as the populace but think as the learned. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. - King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare
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