58 quotes found
“None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.”
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”
“Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.”
“The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”
“Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.”
“Whatever is well said by another is mine.”
“Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.”
“Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.”
“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.”
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
“If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.”
“A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.”
“Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.”
“Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.”
“When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.”
“In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.”
“The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.”
“If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.”
“Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.”
“The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.”
