Tag Archive for: quotes about public speaking
The quote today is from Jonathan Swift ...
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
And that's true ...
but sometimes it's fun to share a little dig at the art with an audience!!
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Anatole France
I hadn't heard about Dan Quayle's reputation, though at least I had heard of the man. I was researching quotations about public speaking and found this one.
Public speaking is very easy.
~ Dan Quayle
Intrigued, I had to find out more - what was the context?
Why did he say that?
Was he being arrogant?
Was he joking?
I still haven't discovered the context, but I have discovered some amazing statements attributed to him. What a speaker he really was!!
“Of all kinds of success, that of an orator is the most pleasing.”
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches
~Adlai E. Stevenson
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Chaffee
(... and a very effective speaking skill too!)
