Declamation Quotes

#1. When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice
and many voices have to be suggested.

Pablo Casals

#2. My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Ron Moody

#3. The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain ...

John Ashbery

#5. From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

Edward Gibbon

#8. The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Edward Moore

#13. Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

William Graham Sumner

#14. I have to do it, she thought, sitting in the red sunlight. There is a puzzle here - something to be solved. What was it Kelsier liked to say?
There's always another secret.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#16. Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable - and you thought having 'one world religion' or 'one God' would unite humanity?

Christina Engela

#17. Later, dictating the tale into his comlog, the Consul remembered it as a seamless whole, minus the pauses, hoarse voice, false starts, and small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech

Dan Simmons

#18. National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

Rudolf Hess

#19. Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Hugh Laurie

#20. Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

#22. Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

Northrop Frye

#23. In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

Sarada Devi

#24. leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right

Stephen R. Covey

#25. To think is to destroy.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. I love you. Not your body, not your face." I hold her hand to my chest. "As you are. As you will be.

Jordan Locke