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oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory matter politician
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Aldous Huxley
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. Thomas Jefferson
oratory prove knows
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. Thomas Carlyle
oratory persuasion power-of-persuasion
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas B. Macaulay
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
savages stones
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. Malcolm Muggeridge
savages shame vacant
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
savages fierce get-away
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. Octavia Butler
savages pleasure disposition
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] Ovid
savages
Savage is he who saves himself. Leonardo da Vinci
savages lucky cost
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. Jean-Paul Sartre
savages christianity conversion
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. George Bernard Shaw
savages handsome way
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. David Gemmell