A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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.
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
