Edward Bennett Williams Quotes

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

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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.

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

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

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

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

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

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

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

I'm not very articulate.

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

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Some eloquence is like a magic.