Oratory Quotes

In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.

~ Francis Assikinack

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

~ Aaron Sorkin

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas.

~ Col. Robert G. Ingersoll

In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

~ Agona Apell

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

~ Joss Whedon

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay