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

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
Theophrastus

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

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

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

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
Mike Singletary

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

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

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

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

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis

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?
Marsilio Ficino