Zhuangzi Quotes

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

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

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

Regan’s greatness as a rhetorician was in his delivery not in the content of what he said as with Churchill and Roosevelt.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I used to recite my speeches walking up a hill. It gives you wind power. I could throw fifty-six pound words across the Grand Canyon.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

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.

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….