Oratory - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45246<![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness: ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247<![CDATA[I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45248<![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45238<![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45239<![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240<![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45241<![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242<![CDATA[When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45243<![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45244<![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245<![CDATA[He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45229<![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig." ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230<![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent. - ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45231<![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45232<![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233<![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45234<![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45235<![CDATA[With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. [Ger., Es tragt Verstand und rechter Sinn, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45236<![CDATA[It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45237<![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224<![CDATA[Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45225<![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226<![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45227<![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45228