Orators Quotes - Page 2

• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Running, Risk, Prejudice

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• Our swords shall play the orators for us.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Play

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 1, sc. 2

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• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Winning, Reality

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• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

  Wendell Phillips

  Want, Firsts, Causes

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• That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

  John Burroughs

  4th Of July, Independence, July 4

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• It is delivery that makes the orators success.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Delivery, Speakers

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• I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

  Mike Singletary

  Player, Thinking, Trying

  "Coach wants to know who bared his secret" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. November 1, 2008.

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• An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

  Isaac Barrow

  Science, Accomplished, Mathematician

  Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.32

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• Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reason, Flood, Poor Richard

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1735

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• An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Speech, Facts, Persons

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• Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Lips, Eloquence

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• Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brain, Mentor, Able

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.71

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• I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

  Mary Collyer

  Laughter, Stupid, Practice

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• 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

  Giving, Lightning, Oratory

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• I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Technique, Firsts, Rhetoric

  Time Magazine Interview, February 2, 1976.

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• I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

  John James Ingalls

  Kings, Home, Fate

  Speach in the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1880.

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• An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Thinking, Feels

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• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Talent, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1812). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.”, p.326

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• The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

  Ben Jonson

  Oratory, Poet

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.152

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• Time is an illusion-to orators.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Illusion

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• We are born poets. we become orators.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Poet, Born

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• Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
  The cry of an applauding multitude,
  Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
  The living mass as if he were its soul!

  William C. Bryant

  Soul, Oratory, Cry

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Flood Of Years”

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• Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Shame, Stealth

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.746, Oxford University Press

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• The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Art, Masters, Laurels

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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