To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time. ’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument. . . . This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
