33 Quotes About Oratory
- Author Aristophanes
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Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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- Author Col. Robert G. Ingersoll
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I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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The greatest words are written on hearts, not paper.
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- Author Russell H. Conwell
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It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking.
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- Author Dashiell Hammett
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Хорошо говорит тот, кто постоянно в этом практикуется («Мальтийский сокол»)
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- Author Khalil Gibran
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A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.
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- Author Frederick Douglass
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
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- Author Aaron Sorkin
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Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.
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- Author Ralph Archbold
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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
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