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In oratory the will must predominate.
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.
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.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.