ORATORY

Related Subjects: Acting, Eloquence, Politics, Preacher, Speech

1. I commend the old proverb, "For we must look about under every stone, lest an orator bite us."—ARISTOPHANES
   

2. All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but by the spoken word.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
   

3. Declamation roar'd, while
   Passion slept.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

4. There was an old man at a Station,
   Who made a promiscuous oration.—EDWARD LEAR, Limerick
   

5. Whoso can speak well is a man.—MARTIN LUTHER
   

6. 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, Lives
   

7. Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

8. It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.—PLUTARCH
   

9. He is a good orator who convinces himself.—Proverb
   

10. Good orators, when they are out, they will spit.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

11. A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
    That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

12. If ever a woman feels proud of her lover, it is when she sees him as a successful public speaker.—HARRIET BEECHER STOWE