Julia Hartz Quotes

I wasn't a great debater.

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.

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

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

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

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 [Moses] am not a man of words.

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

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

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

A great speech is literature.

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

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.