Top Oratory Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Oratory quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ralph Archbold
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
- Ralph Archbold
Collection: Oratory
Image of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Collection: Oratory
Image of Woodrow Wilson
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.
- Woodrow Wilson
Collection: Oratory
Image of Mark Twain
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Oratory
Image of 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
Collection: Oratory
Image of Philibert Joseph Roux
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
- Philibert Joseph Roux
Collection: Oratory
Image of Charles Churchill
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
- Charles Churchill
Collection: Oratory
Image of Claude C. Hopkins
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.
- Claude C. Hopkins
Collection: Oratory
Image of 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.
- Thomas Carlyle
Collection: Oratory
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Oratory
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Oratory
Image of Samuel Johnson
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Oratory
Image of Ben Jonson
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Oratory
Image of Aldous Huxley
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Oratory
Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Collection: Oratory