Good Orator Quotes

#1. The matter is as it is in all other cases: 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

#2. A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Leslie Stephen

#4. Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

Gabby Douglas

#5. We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Maxim Gorky

#6. It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

David Levithan

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

Christopher Pike

#8. One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.

Kyle MacLachlan

#9. I came, he said.
Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it.

Mary Balogh

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

George McGovern

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

Philip Massinger

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Steve Lacy

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

Cato The Elder

#15. 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.

Liberace

#16. Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Oscar Wilde

#17. I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Madeleine Albright

#18. 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.

William J. Clinton