Captivating Speech Quotes

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

I would rather speak to 500 men that would give me their attention that to 100,000 that would not.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

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

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

Gesturing with his body and head rather than with his arms, he grew very impassioned and seemed transfigured. Then the inspiration that possessed him took possession of his hearers also. His speaking went to the heart because it came from the heart. I have heard celebrated orators who could start thunders of applause without changing any man’s opinion. Mr. Lincoln’s eloquence was of the higher type, which produced conviction in others because of the conviction in others because of the conviction of the speaker himself.

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.