| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. |
| Alexander Pope | Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. |
| Charles Churchill | He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. |
| Edward Griffin Parker | The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. |
| Franklin J Dickman | We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent. - Franklin J. Dickman, |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. |
| Plutarch | When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action." |
| Plutarch | It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. |
| Rev John Beacon | Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none. |
| Rufus Choate | Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. |
| Horatius Flaccus | It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. |
| John Milton | Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | There is no true orator who is not a hero. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. |
| Samuel Butler | For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. |
| Thomas Carlyle | 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. |
| William Shakespeare | Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit, and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. |
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