263 Quotes About Public-speaking

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.