Quotes by Oratory Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence. Parker J. Palmer oratory community thinking An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde oratory ornaments The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. Philibert Joseph Roux orators oratory mouths When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' Plutarch oratory important inspiration 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 oratory action firsts A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. Ralph Archbold oratory information speech All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson oratory speech firsts There is no true orator who is not a hero. Ralph Waldo Emerson orators oratory hero Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. Rufus Choate oratory independence constitution Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. Samuel Johnson adversaries oratory argument I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. Sinclair Lewis oratory energy rooms The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas B. Macaulay power-of-persuasion oratory persuasion 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 orators oratory prove Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. Thomas Jefferson oratory amplification vices Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando oratory tricks littles Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, William C. Bryant oratory cry soul There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. Winston Churchill oratory skills kings 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 oratory speech foxes Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! Winston Churchill oratory talent men Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. William Shakespeare oratory kissing matter «123