A Quote by Plato

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

Kapil Sibal

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

Charles Caleb Colton

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Henry David Thoreau

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Cato the Elder

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Leslie Stephen

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Christopher Pike

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

George McGovern

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

Plato

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Philip Massinger

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

Ron Shock

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He's as handsome as they come. And he's a talented orator.