Quotes by Oratory 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 oratory politician matter ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. Ambrose Bierce oratory understanding cheating ... 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. Anna Julia Cooper oratory quiet ideas The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson orators oratory poet Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. Brooks Hays oratory politics political He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. Charles Churchill oratory bones mouths 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 qualifications oratory able 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. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu oratory silence law In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare oratory willpower If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. Dianna Daniels Booher oratory change writing Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. Dorothy Sarnoff oratory listening meaningful 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. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton oratory delay drama Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. Elihu Burritt oratory lightning giving The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without. Francois de La Rochefoucauld oratory passion men There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns. Frederick William Faber oratory hymns sea Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. George Chapman meaning-something oratory clarity Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury oratory savages literature 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. Henry Purcell oratory exaltation harmony 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. Isaac D'Israeli oratory ornaments may It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. Horace oratory differences hero 123»
