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Oratory Quotes
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The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion. (Quote by - Macaulay)
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.(Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
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. (Quote by - Plutarch)
There is no true orator who is not a hero. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.(Quote by - Franklin J. Dickman)
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind.(Quote by - Caius Caecilius Secundus)
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig." (Quote by - George Colman)
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. (Quote by - Cicero)
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)