Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.
And when mine oratory drew toward end
I bid them that did love their country's good
Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal King!
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense of our own rights and importance, or anxieties for our own future, or longings for our own success, we need not expect that our spiritual life will be a contrast to all this. The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction not merely the idea that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by ... swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished that of the other continues to this day.
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''
Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
The practice of speaking to an audience outside of the chamber is very old. These people are professional politicians, and they will not be swayed by others' oratory.
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