Oratory Quotes

Oratory Quote of the day

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

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.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'