"LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience."

"ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography."

"For rhetoric, he could not open His mouth, but out there flew a trope."

"Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'..."

"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."

"We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent."

"There is no true orator who is not a hero."

"Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros."

"Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie…"

"In the tradition of popular oratory, Trash [a nickname] started a talk at random, moved confidently ahead in no parti…"