33 Quotes About Oratory

  • Author Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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    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.]

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  • Author William C. Bryant
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    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!

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  • Author Geoffrey Chaucer
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    By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

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

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    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.

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  • Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    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.]

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