Walter Savage Landor Quotes

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.