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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