Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

Charles Williams

We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

George Saintsbury

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Plutarch

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Todd Galloway

We have to get over what happened and understand that we have something to play for. We just have to forget about it.

Charlotte Bronte

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Tove Jansson

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

David Morrissey

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Dave Barry

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Buddy Guy

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Cesare Lombroso

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Jane Addams

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.