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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him. -- Thomas Carlyle
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. -- David Josiah Brewer
I'm an orator, a raconteur. -- Ron Shock
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. -- Theophrastus
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. -- Maria Edgeworth
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. -- Wendell Phillips
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. -- Joshua Reynolds
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. -- George McGovern
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. -- Sinclair Lewis
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer. -- Thomas Starr King
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president. -- Mario Cuomo
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. -- Richard Dawkins
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? -- Marsilio Ficino
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know. -- Richard Dawkins
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools. -- George William Russell
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic. -- David Josiah Brewer
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
I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur. -- Simon Schama
Gold is a deep-persuading orator. -- Richard Barnfield
A good orator is pointed and impassioned. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. -- William Shakespeare
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. -- Ben Jonson
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. -- Isaac Barrow
There is no true orator who is not a hero. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. -- Cato the Elder
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator. -- William Penn
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say. -- Finley Peter Dunne
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. -- Leslie Stephen
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist. -- Michael Buble
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. -- William Shakespeare
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. -- Henry David Thoreau
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. -- Benjamin Franklin
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. -- Christopher Pike
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. -- Philip Massinger
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. -- William Jennings Bryan
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. -- William Hazlitt
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. -- Michel de Montaigne
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! -- Charles Caleb Colton
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while. -- Will Rogers
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. -- Will Rogers
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
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
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience. -- Henry David Thoreau
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. -- William J. Clinton
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. -- Steve Lacy
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
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
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. -- Henry David Thoreau
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? -- Hartley Coleridge
Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all. -- Keshub Chandra Sen
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. -- Henry David Thoreau
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate. -- John Peter Altgeld

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