Oratorical Ability Quotes

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively to elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electrify as well.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.

... the gustiest and gloriest, loudest and lustiest, the deadliest and damndest orator ever heard on this or any other earth ..., the champion boob-bumper of all epoches.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner

He is a third rate Western lawyer…they take a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar and whose speeches are illiterate compositions…interlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

In those days it was very nice to have a President who clearly spoke the English language.

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.