Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
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.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger. , Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck. ]
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail. . . Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans.
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.