“ When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, "Action, Action, Action.". ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 686
“ The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Its Constitution — the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ”
- Rufus Choate- Copy
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“ Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2.4K
“ It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, — nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking — God warn us! — matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people? ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
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“ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The passions are the only orators which always persuade. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain. ”
- H. L. Phillips- Copy
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“ Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
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“ I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig. ”
- George Colman- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
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“ If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness: Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness: Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ”
- David Everett- Copy
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