Oratory Quotes
These are some of the best 'Oratory' quotations and sayings.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
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Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
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Extemporaneous speaking is, indeed, the groundwork of the orator's art; preparation is the last finish, and the most difficult of all his accomplishments. To learn by heart as a schoolboy, or to prepare as an orator, are two things, not only essentially different, but essentially antagonistic to each other; for the work most opposed to an effective oration is an elegant essay.
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Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
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He is the eloquent man who can treat subjects of an humble nature with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
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I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
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In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art.
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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.
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List his discourse of war, and you shall hear a fearful battle rendered you in music.
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
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Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. - The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read.
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Oratory may be symbolized by a warrior's eye, flashing from under a philosopher's brow. But why a warrior's eye rather than a poet's? Because in oratory the will must predominate.
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Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. - Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
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Suit the action to the word; the word to the action; with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
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The effective public speaker receives from his audience in vapor, what he pours back on them in a flood.
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The elegance of the style, and the turn of the periods make the chief impression upon the hearers. - Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments such as they are.
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The language of the heart which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, graceful, and full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language, - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.
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The passions are the only orators that always succeed. They are, as it were, nature's art of eloquence, fraught with infallible rules. Simplicity, with the aid of the passions, persuades more than the utmost eloquence without it.
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