Public speaking Quotes
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“It was a bit of campaign oratory.”
“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”
“There is no true orator who is not a hero.”
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
“Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.”
“Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.”
“Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit.”
“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
“Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.”
“For rhetoric, he could not open
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.”
“What means this passionate discourse,
This peroration with such circumstance?”
“Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn,
Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor.”
“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green.”
“List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.”
“Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue.”
“Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.”
“''Ce que l'on conceit bien s'énonce clairement,
Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.”
“The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.”
“Wikipedia: Public speaking”
“Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Glück,
Ich fühl es wohl noch bin ich weit zurück.”