“An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.”
William Hazlitt
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”
Bible
“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
“No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause”
Wendell Phillips