Oratory Quotes

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

What the orators want in depth they give you in length.

The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.