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For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an argument, and for their own sake. He would say, for example, "My farm was the very apocalypse of fertility, but the renter has rested on his oars till it is good for nothing," or "Manifest the bounty to pass the salt shaker in my direction." Something of the Bible, something of an Irish inheritance, something of a liar's anxiety, made of his most ordinary remark a strange and wearisome oratory.
Glenway Wescott
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.
Macaulay
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
Paul Chatfield
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.
Macaulay
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
Paul Chatfield
The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.
Joss Whedon
In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll
Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.
Ramana Pemmaraju
Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.
Aaron Sorkin
In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.
Francis Assikinack
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