Bill O'Reilly Quotes

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I wasn't a great debater.

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 was on the debate team.

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

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

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

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

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.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

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

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

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

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

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