Orator Quotes
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace
— John Taliaferro
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
— George McGovern
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
— Henry David Thoreau
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Caesar declared that an orator should 'avoid an unusual word as the helmsman of a ship avoided a reef'.
— Adrian Goldsworthy
I'm an orator, a raconteur.
— Ron Shock
The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.
— G.K. Chesterton
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
— Cato The Elder
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
— Christopher Pike
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
— Philip Massinger
A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.
— Kahlil Gibran
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
— Wendell Phillips
Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator. — William Shakespeare
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
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
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
— Robert A. Caro
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Columbian Orator.
— Frederick Douglass
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
— Maria Edgeworth
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
— Thomas Starr King
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
— Theophrastus
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
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
— William Shakespeare
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
— Richard Barnfield
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
— Ben Jonson
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow
— Yando Wanii Nimbo
I came, he said.Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it. — Mary Balogh
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
— Joshua Reynolds
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
— William Jennings Bryan
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
