(20 quotes found)
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak”
“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
“What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length”
“A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.”
William Hazlitt
“An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .”
Maria Edgeworth
“[In 1902, lawyer-politician William Jennings Bryan came down from his hilltop home and delivered an oration.] Nothing but football is in order this day, ... You, Nebraska, can conquer.”
William Jennings Bryan
