Top 107 Orator Quotes & Sayings

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

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

No doubt Modi ji is a great orator because he was a pracharak from a young age.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

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

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

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

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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.

Modi is a great orator.

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

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

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

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

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.

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.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

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

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.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

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

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

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

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

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

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.