Quotes about oratory
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
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams