Orator Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Eloquence and wisdom are by no means the same thing. They are sometimes united, but not necessarily ; perhaps never when eloquence is the mere gift of nature rather than the slow result of nature and art conjoined. A ready supply of glittering language and an ardent conception, i. e. a fertile imagination, and quick feelings, united to a retentive memory—these are together quite sufficient to make an orator, but by no means to make a wise man; to make a speaker or even a leader in a popular assembly, but not necessarily a statesman.

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

Time is an illusion-to orators.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.

I thought he [Winston Churchill] was a young man of promise, but it appears he was a young man of promises.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

My dad is the funniest human being I've ever met in my life - for years, I'd watch him hold court in whatever situation he was in; he was the most amazing raconteur. I often feel I've hijacked what should have been his career.

I'm a better talker than writer.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Mr. James Madison is a character who has long been in public life; and what is very remarkable every Person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician, with the Scholar. In the management of every great question he evidently took the lead in the Convention, and tho' he cannot be called an Orator, he is a most agreeable, eloquent, and convincing Speaker. From a spirit of industry and application which he possesses in a most eminent degree, he always comes forward the best informed Man of any point in debate. The affairs of the United States, he perhaps, has the most correct knowledge of, of any Man in the Union.

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.