Quotes with oratory

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• Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

  Emily Post
  American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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• In oratory the will must predominate.

  David Hare
  British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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• Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

  Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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• The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

  T.B. Macauly
   
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• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• shortcomings
• unbelievable
• demosthenes
• persuasion
• important

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